[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote:
Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The gzip package has a similar situation with gunzip and zcat,
but it has created gunzip.1 and zcat.1 as hardlinks to gzip.1. Since
man can deal with a manpage with multiple names, this seems like an
unnecessary
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes:
Please install dictunzip.1 and dictzcat.1 as symlinks or hardlinks.
Actually, ignore the "... or hardlinks" bit. Policy 13.1:
You should not create hard links in the manual page directories, nor
put absolute filenames in .so directives.
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:08:12AM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmm, did you run strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note on
the binaries?
Carlos Laviola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Call strip with '--strip-unneeded' in your debian/rules
"Steve" == Steve M Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve Despite your prejudice, there is no policy forbidding hard links in a
Steve .deb file.
There is a caveat: hardlinks do not work across partitions,
and one is generally not aware of the partition schema on the target
machines
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If lintian objects to them, shouldn't policy mention stripping them?
Doesn't it already?
The only guidance I can find in policy 3.5.2.0 on the subject of
stripping binaries is in section 11.1. Binaries:
Note that by default all installed
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I've made a package out of tcpspy. This is a tcp connections logger
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G'dau All,
I'm using debian testing with kernel 2.2.18pre21 and am
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I've installed debs and got the source files, the NVIDIA-glx
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kernel modules it starts ok then dies with a the
Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have added symlinks from /usr/bin/dictunzip and
/usr/bin/dictzcat to /usr/bin/dictzip. The manpage for dictzip
includes the following:
NAME
dictzip, dictunzip, dictzcat - compress (or expand) files,
allowing random access
SYNOPSIS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote:
Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The gzip package has a similar situation with gunzip and zcat,
but it has created gunzip.1 and zcat.1 as hardlinks to gzip.1. Since
man can deal with a manpage with multiple names, this seems like an
unnecessary
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmm, did you run strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note on
the binaries?
Carlos Laviola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Call strip with '--strip-unneeded' in your debian/rules to strip
these sections out of the binaries when building the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes:
Please install dictunzip.1 and dictzcat.1 as symlinks or hardlinks.
Actually, ignore the ... or hardlinks bit. Policy 13.1:
You should not create hard links in the manual page directories, nor
put absolute filenames in .so directives.
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:08:12AM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmm, did you run strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note on
the binaries?
Carlos Laviola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Call strip with '--strip-unneeded' in your debian/rules to
Steve == Steve M Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve Despite your prejudice, there is no policy forbidding hard links in a
Steve .deb file.
There is a caveat: hardlinks do not work across partitions,
and one is generally not aware of the partition schema on the target
machines
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If lintian objects to them, shouldn't policy mention stripping them?
Doesn't it already?
The only guidance I can find in policy 3.5.2.0 on the subject of
stripping binaries is in section 11.1. Binaries:
Note that by default all installed
Is there a ref doc about building packages of dynamic libraries ?
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On 21-Apr-2001 Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
Is there a ref doc about building packages of dynamic libraries ?
I, too, would like some suggestions on more-or-less complex packages that have
libs or are lib-only packages, so I can take a look, since I
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