Re: Next upload 2009-05-18 (dpkg 1.15.1)

2009-05-20 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:20:07 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Tue, 19 May 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Well, to me the main reason is that those packages are already broken > > per policy, and this is just to avoid even more breakage. > > Well, there's "broken per policy" and "broken as in m

Re: Next upload 2009-05-18 (dpkg 1.15.1)

2009-05-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I would rather wait a final decision on this instead of knowingly breaking > > packages once more. Not sure how to reach a decision, the discussion is > > rather slowly paced. Maybe asking a recommendation to the technical > > committee ? > > Well, to

Re: Next upload 2009-05-18 (dpkg 1.15.1)

2009-05-19 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 16:20:41 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: > > * dpkg vendor env settings. > > > > Now that Raphaël has implemented the dpkg-vendor program, those vars > > can be disabled w/o any problem. > > Done. Cool, thanks. > > * Build flag

Re: Next upload 2009-05-18 (dpkg 1.15.1)

2009-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Neil Williams wrote: > Because use of dpkg-architecture - by definition - is not the default > and therefore that it is one way of setting the environment variables > necessary for non-standard builds, i.e. cross-builds. Yes, but we export the variables in all cases and not on

Re: Next upload 2009-05-18 (dpkg 1.15.1)

2009-05-17 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 17 May 2009 16:20:41 +0200 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > * Build flags env settings. > > > > Raphaël mentioned on IRC that we could wait a bit for this, but I > > think we rather stop exporting them now so that no more > > maintainers start relying on them. We can always reenable them >

Re: Next upload 2009-05-18 (dpkg 1.15.1)

2009-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: > * dpkg vendor env settings. > > Now that Raphaël has implemented the dpkg-vendor program, those vars > can be disabled w/o any problem. Done. > * Build flags env settings. > > Raphaël mentioned on IRC that we could wait a bit for this, but I >

Next upload 2009-05-18 (dpkg 1.15.1)

2009-05-16 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! So here's the list of things I consider blockers for next 1.15.1 release targetting unstable, or that at least we should discuss here if you think otherwise. The main reason for this is that those are either new interfaces which should not be exposed to avoid users starting to use them. Or old