Re: Linking C++ libraries

2003-09-05 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 10:44, Michael Koch wrote: > I maintain several libraries written in C++. Unfortunately the use gcc > for linking. Currently I added added -lstdc++ explicitely to link all > needed libraries which my libraries are depending on. Is ther a > better way to tell libtool to use

Re: Problem with dependency declaration

2003-11-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:27, Frank KÃster wrote: > in a package that I maintain (sponsored by a DD), I use a call to > stat. In sarge, /usr/bin/stat is in coreutils - of course I don't need a > dependency on that. *snip* > If coreutils wouldn't be of priority required, > (Policy 3.5). You are req

Re: Problem with dependency declaration

2003-11-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 10:55, Eike Sauer wrote: > Am Sonntag, 2. November 2003 20:56 schrieb Scott James Remnant: > > You are not required to list dependencies on 'Essential' packages (those > > marked Essential: yes). > > But "you ar not required" does

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 18:44, Joel Baker wrote: > Is it valid to use UTF-8 in the debian/copyright file? (Specifically, it > is possibly to accurately reproduce a copyright symbol, using UTF-8, which > would be a nice thing to have...) > There exists no policy for this; therefore common sense take

Re: Maintainer: field in .changes

2004-01-19 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 19:29, Adriaan Peeters wrote: > I am a bit confused about the usage of the Maintainer field in .changes > files. *snip* > What is the correct policy? Should the automatically generated .changes > file be updated to include the uploader's email? > I tend to request people I s

Re: Maintainer: field in .changes

2004-01-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 09:10, Frank KÃster wrote: > Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maintainer: field in debian/control contains their ASCIIfied[0] name, > [...] > > [0] this must match that given in changelog for bugs to correctly close, > >

Re: Maintainer: field in .changes

2004-01-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:07, Frank KÃster wrote: > Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > * Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-20 11:36]: > >> You're breaking policy by doing that ;-) policy only allows UTF-8 > >> in de

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 19:49, Stephen Frost wrote: > We shouldn't be recommending providing staticlly linked libs for people > to use, even in the 'fast moving' case- if it's that fast then it > probably shouldn't be in Debian and that's just life. > > .la files shouldn't be included in anything,

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 21:29, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 08:18:35PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > We shouldn't be recommending providing staticlly linked libs for people > > > to use, even in the 'fast moving' case- if it's tha

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 22:15, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:59:34PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > But shipping .la files in non-dev packages should still be a hanging > > > offense. > > > Plugins using libltdl probably need them ... th

Re: RFS: miscellaneous packages

2004-04-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 09:46 +0200, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > * On 08-04-04 - 00:41, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:02:46PM +0200, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > > > There is a discrepancy between the .orig.tar.gz available on your > > > website and t

Re: Size of int vs. long vs. void * vs. Fortran INTEGER

2004-06-18 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 22:50 -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > On 06/17/2004 08:34 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Normaly thats what your configure script is for. > > > > Or just use and then int32_t, int64_t, intptr_t, > > Unfortunately Cernlib was largely written in the 1970's and

Re: Linking C++ libraries

2003-09-05 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 10:44, Michael Koch wrote: > I maintain several libraries written in C++. Unfortunately the use gcc > for linking. Currently I added added -lstdc++ explicitely to link all > needed libraries which my libraries are depending on. Is ther a > better way to tell libtool to use

Re: Problem with dependency declaration

2003-11-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:27, Frank Küster wrote: > in a package that I maintain (sponsored by a DD), I use a call to > stat. In sarge, /usr/bin/stat is in coreutils - of course I don't need a > dependency on that. *snip* > If coreutils wouldn't be of priority required, > (Policy 3.5). You are req

Re: Problem with dependency declaration

2003-11-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 10:55, Eike Sauer wrote: > Am Sonntag, 2. November 2003 20:56 schrieb Scott James Remnant: > > You are not required to list dependencies on 'Essential' packages (those > > marked Essential: yes). > > But "you ar not required" does

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 18:44, Joel Baker wrote: > Is it valid to use UTF-8 in the debian/copyright file? (Specifically, it > is possibly to accurately reproduce a copyright symbol, using UTF-8, which > would be a nice thing to have...) > There exists no policy for this; therefore common sense take

Re: Maintainer: field in .changes

2004-01-19 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 19:29, Adriaan Peeters wrote: > I am a bit confused about the usage of the Maintainer field in .changes > files. *snip* > What is the correct policy? Should the automatically generated .changes > file be updated to include the uploader's email? > I tend to request people I s

Re: Maintainer: field in .changes

2004-01-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 09:10, Frank Küster wrote: > Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maintainer: field in debian/control contains their ASCIIfied[0] name, > [...] > > [0] this must match that given in changelog for bugs to correctly close, > >

Re: Maintainer: field in .changes

2004-01-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:07, Frank Küster wrote: > Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > * Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-20 11:36]: > >> You're breaking policy by doing that ;-) policy only allows UTF-8 > >> in de

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 19:49, Stephen Frost wrote: > We shouldn't be recommending providing staticlly linked libs for people > to use, even in the 'fast moving' case- if it's that fast then it > probably shouldn't be in Debian and that's just life. > > .la files shouldn't be included in anything,

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 21:29, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 08:18:35PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > We shouldn't be recommending providing staticlly linked libs for people > > > to use, even in the 'fast moving' case- if it's tha

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 22:15, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:59:34PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > But shipping .la files in non-dev packages should still be a hanging > > > offense. > > > Plugins using libltdl probably need them ... th

Re: RFS: miscellaneous packages

2004-04-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 09:46 +0200, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > * On 08-04-04 - 00:41, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:02:46PM +0200, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > > > There is a discrepancy between the .orig.tar.gz available on your > > > website and t

Re: Size of int vs. long vs. void * vs. Fortran INTEGER

2004-06-18 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 22:50 -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > On 06/17/2004 08:34 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Normaly thats what your configure script is for. > > > > Or just use and then int32_t, int64_t, intptr_t, > > Unfortunately Cernlib was largely written in the 1970's and

GPG Key Signing in UK

2001-09-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
n a few weeks now, I thought I'd try here (as suggested by my Application Manager). I live in Birmingham, UK and work in London, UK, so arranging a meet in/around these two cities is usually possible at any time. Thanks, Scott -- Scott James Remnant Have you ever, ever felt lik

Re: GPG Key Signing in UK

2001-09-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
#x27;s at the NEC in Birmingham, yeah? > Check out the debian-uk list at chiark.greenend.org.uk, for the UK > debian people. > Thanks, will try that. Scott -- Scott James Remnant Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange http://netsplit.com/ things happen? Are you going round the twist?

Re: GPG Key Signing in UK

2001-09-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:02:30PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > I live in Birmingham, UK and work in London, UK, so arranging a meet > > in/around these two cities is usually possible at any time. > > You may want

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
ght file. > > > > Why/how would that help? > > > > Then /etc/flipit.conf could just always have /dev/flipit, and the > package's maintainer scripts would control where /dev/flipit pointed > to. > And this would integrate with devfs, how? Scott -- Scott James

Re: Bug#123769: Problems for evolution into woody

2001-12-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
dozens of lines ...] > Ah, that would be using libtool 1.4, then. Scott -- Scott James Remnant Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange http://netsplit.com/ things happen? Are you going round the twist?

GPG Key Signing in UK

2001-09-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
n a few weeks now, I thought I'd try here (as suggested by my Application Manager). I live in Birmingham, UK and work in London, UK, so arranging a meet in/around these two cities is usually possible at any time. Thanks, Scott -- Scott James Remnant Have you ever, ever felt lik

Re: GPG Key Signing in UK

2001-09-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
#x27;s at the NEC in Birmingham, yeah? > Check out the debian-uk list at chiark.greenend.org.uk, for the UK > debian people. > Thanks, will try that. Scott -- Scott James Remnant Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange http://netsplit.com/ things happen? Are you go

Re: GPG Key Signing in UK

2001-09-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:02:30PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > I live in Birmingham, UK and work in London, UK, so arranging a meet > > in/around these two cities is usually possible at any time. > > You may want

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
ght file. > > > > Why/how would that help? > > > > Then /etc/flipit.conf could just always have /dev/flipit, and the > package's maintainer scripts would control where /dev/flipit pointed > to. > And this would integrate with devfs, how? Scott -- Scott James

Re: Bug#123769: Problems for evolution into woody

2001-12-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
dozens of lines ...] > Ah, that would be using libtool 1.4, then. Scott -- Scott James Remnant Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange http://netsplit.com/ things happen? Are you going round the twist? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]