Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:30:35AM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > > Could someone please clarify if it's appropriate to respect upstream's > > wishes to leave the symbols in? > > Sure. It's only a "should" in policy, not a "must", so it's ok not to > strip. > OK, I guess I'll pack 'em back in

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-13 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 23:19, Drew Parsons wrote: > Why does policy ask us to strip binaries anyway? Is it merely to reduce > storage and bandwidth costs? Right. I think there will be a point in the future (probably 2-3 years away at least though) though where we can just default to shipping un

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:09:00AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > But to answer your specific question, I don't see it as a big deal if > you ship unstripped binaries in a package in unstable for a while. I > think the important part is providing stripped binaries for sarge; so > just be sure t

Problems in dpkg database

2002-10-13 Thread Alte
Hi! I'm creating a piece of software that should analyze integrity of filesystem relative to dpkg database (or integriry of dpkg database relative to filesystem if you like ;) But I ran into problems loading dpkg database. They are as follows: 1. Great deal of packages have no $package.md5sums f

Re: Problems in dpkg database

2002-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 07:46:49PM +0400, Alte wrote: > But I ran into problems loading dpkg database. They are as follows: > 1. Great deal of packages have no $package.md5sums file > 2. In one package there are files in $package.md5sums that are not > listed in $package.list md5sums files aren't

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Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-13 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Drew! You wrote: > Why does policy ask us to strip binaries anyway? Is it merely to reduce > storage and bandwidth costs? Yes, afaik this is the only reason. > Could someone please clarify if it's appropriate to respect upstream's > wishes to leave the symbols in? Sure. It's only a "should

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-13 Thread Jörg Sommer
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > Could someone please clarify if it's appropriate to respect upstream's > wishes to leave the symbols in? Why you not provide a -dbg version of your package? If someone has an error and want to report this, he can install the -dbg version to get non st

libxmlsec, round 2

2002-10-13 Thread John Belmonte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'd like to take another shot at getting libxmlsec into Debian (bug #152605). I'm looking for someone to sponsor the following: ~http://memebeam.org/john/tests/libxmlsec/woody/libxmlsec_0.0.9-1.dsc This time no dependent package NMU's a

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-13 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Drew! You wrote: > Why does policy ask us to strip binaries anyway? Is it merely to reduce > storage and bandwidth costs? Yes, afaik this is the only reason. > Could someone please clarify if it's appropriate to respect upstream's > wishes to leave the symbols in? Sure. It's only a "should

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-13 Thread Jörg Sommer
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > Could someone please clarify if it's appropriate to respect upstream's > wishes to leave the symbols in? Why you not provide a -dbg version of your package? If someone has an error and want to report this, he can install the -dbg version to get non st

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:30:35AM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > > Could someone please clarify if it's appropriate to respect upstream's > > wishes to leave the symbols in? > > Sure. It's only a "should" in policy, not a "must", so it's ok not to > strip. > OK, I guess I'll pack 'em back in

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-13 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 23:19, Drew Parsons wrote: > Why does policy ask us to strip binaries anyway? Is it merely to reduce > storage and bandwidth costs? Right. I think there will be a point in the future (probably 2-3 years away at least though) though where we can just default to shipping uns

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:09:00AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > But to answer your specific question, I don't see it as a big deal if > you ship unstripped binaries in a package in unstable for a while. I > think the important part is providing stripped binaries for sarge; so > just be sure to

Problems in dpkg database

2002-10-13 Thread Alte
Hi! I'm creating a piece of software that should analyze integrity of filesystem relative to dpkg database (or integriry of dpkg database relative to filesystem if you like ;) But I ran into problems loading dpkg database. They are as follows: 1. Great deal of packages have no $package.md5sums fi

Re: Problems in dpkg database

2002-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 07:46:49PM +0400, Alte wrote: > But I ran into problems loading dpkg database. They are as follows: > 1. Great deal of packages have no $package.md5sums file > 2. In one package there are files in $package.md5sums that are not > listed in $package.list md5sums files aren't

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