Bug#157131: PROPOSAL] Suggest to minimize optimization when DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains "debug"

2002-08-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
he vast majority of packages build with -O0 just fine. But where it fails it fails spectacularly :) As for me personally, I have made peace with -O2 code. stepi is your friend ;) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Bri

Re: Architecture strings Was: [rms@gnu.org: Re: PATCH: gcc-3.1/criteria.html]

2002-05-31 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
reworked in dpkg. For dpkg-architecture, fixing the GNU names is good enough. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-br

Re: init.d scripts and LSB

2002-05-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:18:13AM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On May 07, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > The LSB is necessary to avoid diversity among GNU/Linux distributions. > > There is only one GNU system, as such no diversity, and all of what the LSB > > specifies as far

Re: init.d scripts and LSB

2002-05-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
merry mix of early Debian members, new members of Debian, and fresh blood. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkma

Re: The Serious severity

2002-05-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:12:16AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 10:08:51AM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > I don't care about now, I care about the next release, or the release > > after that. > > Then how about you spend a moment t

Re: The Serious severity

2002-05-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 06:34:32PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Think about it for a while from any perspective but a hurd hacker's for > heavens sake. I have thought about it from all perspectives, from the release managers perspective specifically. > Think about what should get the highest pr

Re: The Serious severity

2002-05-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 04:05:39PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 05:27:30PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:16:32PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:15:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > >

Re: The Serious severity

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:32:25AM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > * Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020503 09:21]: > > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:16:32PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > There may be subtle differences between the meanings of the various > &g

Re: The Serious severity

2002-05-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
above by making a finer distinction. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#137172: removing Dan Quinlan's addr from policy

2002-03-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
nds > (a more reasonable approach IMO), and just to fix it. ok. I decide that you (or whoever can) should go and do that change. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL P

Re: Summary of KDE filesystem discussion

2002-01-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
example. If you want such wild fantasies to become true, you should take another look at the GNU/Hurd. ;) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Summary of KDE filesystem discussion

2002-01-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
the user. Thanks, Marcus [1] You can't boot yet from a shadowed filesystem, and the shadowfs implementation is not yet ready for prime time. But all the ground has been cleared and cultivated. -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brin

Re: Summary of KDE filesystem discussion

2002-01-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
; Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Online Help

2001-12-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
he restriction to 24 lines makes any sense, but it should print the help output at stdout, so you can easily pipe it to your pager. GNU programs also print usage (--usage) information at error (to stderr) or at --usage (to stdout). Thanks, marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian h

Re: Question about build dependencies.

2001-12-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Thanks, Marcus [1] Such an example existed, some binutils-* package did this. -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Question about build dependencies.

2001-12-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Bug#119517: pcmcia-cs: cardinfo binary needs to move into a separate package

2001-11-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
nks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Bug#111839: PROPOSAL]: packages should be cross buildable

2001-09-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ss compilation. I am not sure about the wording, and how much technical details it should contain. (But I can't make a better suggestion right now). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU

Re: packages without .md5sums file?

2001-07-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:09:55PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Can you elaborate on the advantage of letting everyone generate their own > > checksums for the installed files? Seems to me a waste of cpu cycles. > > We process a

Re: packages without .md5sums file?

2001-07-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
g part is > implemented already, the second is not currently. Can you elaborate on the advantage of letting everyone generate their own checksums for the installed files? Seems to me a waste of cpu cycles. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mandate ldconfig -X?

2001-06-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:54:15PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Marcus> We could make it bail out with an error if something is > Marcus> requested which isn't implement

Re: mandate ldconfig -X?

2001-06-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
of calling ldconfig is). It's really just a clean up of one of the many things that are slightly broken. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Tightening up specification of /bin/sh

2001-05-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Tightening up specification of /bin/sh

2001-05-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:03:14AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:43:11AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 09:13:31PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > > I'd like to tighten this up a bit by requiring that /bin/sh adhere to

Re: Tightening up specification of /bin/sh

2001-05-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
erstandable motivation to specify what POSIX doesn't, your proposal leaves a lot to be wished for. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Finishing the FHS transition

2001-05-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
yptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Finishing the FHS transition

2001-05-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
s (bug-hurd@gnu.org) gnumach > GNU Hurd Maintainers (bug-hurd@gnu.org) hurd > GNU Hurd Maintainers (bug-hurd@gnu.org) mig > Marcus Brinkmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED])inetutils Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http:

Definition of Binary field in control file

2001-04-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Any other syntax which specifies debian-installer along with the udeb name would be nice, any other syntax marking udebs specifically (without mentioning debian-installer) would only provide a very limited service but would work, too. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian h

Re: Definition of alphanumeric?

2001-04-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
th MYDIR being something evaluating to pwd, but chnaging it to CURDIR doesn't change anythin). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Definition of alphanumeric?

2001-04-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
-- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Definition of alphanumeric?

2001-04-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
hs at build time, I would support such a proposal, but I have no time to work the details out myself. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: arch: lines, for not-just-linux debian. (was Re: Hurd and architecture)

2001-03-31 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ay: this is linux-all, hurd-all, linux-any, hurd-any. I think everybody can agree to that ;) I wrote something about arch depends in more detail: http://master.debian.org/~brinkmd/arch-handling.txt Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROT

Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads)

2001-03-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
my > message. I don't know. If it is, then you can scratch my messages instead. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads)

2001-03-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ess I am very mistaken, we must have one such rule for autobuilders and maintainers to follow. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Bug#90511: proposal] disallow multi-distribution uploads

2001-03-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:00:02PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > IMHO, the fundamental and unavoidable reason why we have this problem > > is the following: > > > We don't know in which Packages files (=dis

Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads)

2001-03-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
his is not a lot of work. The release manager needs to look at this place of course, instead in the upload queue. It's just a matter of how to communicate it to the release manager. Do you think this is a workable compromise? Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://ww

Bug#90511: proposal] disallow multi-distribution uploads

2001-03-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
he amount of possible cases is stunning. In fact, potentially unlimited. -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: seeking resolution to issues I have raised

2001-02-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:05:32AM -1000, Brian Russo wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:55:16PM +0200, Moshe Zadka wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 01:38:09 +0100 (CET), Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > > > > There has not

Re: Size limit for compressing files

2001-02-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:57:51AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Policy says compress it "unless it is small". 4k is an arbitrary > choice AFAIK. Not quite so. It is based on the common block size of the file system. If you have a block size of 4 kb, all files between 1 and 4096 bytes will occupy

Bug#83669: dynamic creation of libx.so.n

2001-02-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
lved ages ago in ldconfig :) > > Maybe so, but then Debian packages shouldn't include the symlink in > the runtime library package. Note that the Hurd does not have ldconfig doing anything (its a link to /bin/true to make postinsts happy). Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
f the GPL assumed. What a deal. Or /100 of the full archive. What a deal. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: [RFC] Measuring skills of a Debian Developer

2000-11-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 07:09:19PM +0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > My idea is that every DD's skills in should be recorded. That's counter productive, inprecise and unsocial. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [RFC] Package build time config for installation directories.

2000-11-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ile (-ahurd-i386) if you have i386-gnu-gcc installed, a hurd partition with libs and headers mounted on /gnu, and the package is prepared for it. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: [RFC] Package build time config for installation directories.

2000-11-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
mentioning it for completeness anyway. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: [RFC] Package build time config for installation directories.

2000-11-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Am Son, 05 Nov 2000 22:24:35 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe: > > On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > 1) Non-FHS ports have problems concering the directories where things > >get installed (they may not match linux directories). Darwin, FreeBSD, > >Hurd and many others fall into this cat

Re: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts

2000-10-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
utput at all, verbose == everything) and leaves the medium levels to the package maintainers. The level should be passed to the install script by dpkg (or via environment, also by dpkg or by user). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: file-rc? was: Re: All services that require a restart from libc6 upgrade...

2000-10-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ven help, as the Hurd will have its own init scheme as well, and we need to strengthen the update-inet.d abstraction, not weaken it, for compatibility. Diversion is good :) thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann

Re: All services that require a restart from libc6 upgrade...

2000-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 07:04:44PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > Debian does not ship any other kernel... Eh, so what? Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor pub

Re: All services that require a restart from libc6 upgrade...

2000-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
symbol1|symbol2' > > The processes to restart could be taken from ps AND /etc/init.d/*. This only works under Linux (/proc usage). Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org

Re: Preparing Debian for using capabilities: file ownership.

2000-09-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
must have, because he has a maximum number of Debian packages installed. (Joey, what is the maximum number of Debian packages you can install without having a conflict?) Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhtt

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
s, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
hich probably needs to be in Build-Depends then). They can even compile a debian/rules2 program and use that for further processing. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfo

Bug#69311: PROPOSAL] Finishing the /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc transition.

2000-08-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
king for seconds for this proposal. Seconded. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://ho

Bug#66023: PROPOSAL] Treat plugins and shared libraries differently

2000-07-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:15:19AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 04:17:18PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > That is ld.so(8) on my system. > > > > > > Ditto. Actually, since we basically only use ELF nowadays, that > > > s

Bug#66023: PROPOSAL] Treat plugins and shared libraries differently

2000-07-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
"ld-linux.so(8)". I don't know what ld-linux.so is. Please don't use it. Marcus Debian GNU/Hurd developer -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Ke

Re: [Re: Bug#66535: proposal of virtual package: syslogd]

2000-07-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
27; be sufficient? Im thinking on the HURD). Thanks for paying attention. The Hurd can and will have a kernel logger, too, so please use the generic name. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUh

Bug#59403: PROPOSED] restrictions on content of /usr/share/doc

2000-03-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
yptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#59403: PROPOSED] restrictions on content of /usr/share/doc

2000-03-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 05:30:56PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > I agree with the idea in general, but the wording is extremely poor. > > "Reference" is not a computer-technical term. > > It's the same wording that's already used

Bug#59403: PROPOSED] restrictions on content of /usr/share/doc

2000-03-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:01:14PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > A proposal to limit the files that are placed in /usr/share/doc to those > that are not referred to by any programs on the system. I agree with the idea in general, but the wording is extremely poor. "Reference" is not a computer-technic

Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:30:24AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 03:56:52PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > GNU (read: the Hurd) is using /libexec (we don't have /usr) as well. > > It is a good idea for some stuff IMHO. > > The FHS should

Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 06:15:43PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marcus> GNU (read: the Hurd) is using /libexec (we don't have > Marcus> /usr) as well. It is a good idea for som

Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
yptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: missing FHS archives

2000-01-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:55:49AM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Instead of being slammed for inventing conspiracies where none would exist, > I would be perfectly happy to be proven wrong by someone providing > a link to such archives. As so many of you

Bug#53762: PROPOSED] applying the FHS to packages that use X

2000-01-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 03:21:36PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I like this! (Read: seconded) At long last, we may be able to do > away with the regular /usr/X11R6/bin vs. /usr/bin debate! Seconded as well. At one time we will be able to drop /usr/X11R6. (I am certain that this will happen at

Re: Thoughts about src-dep implementation

1999-10-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
o conclusions. Thanks, Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Thoughts about src-dep implementation

1999-10-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
considered to be complete only after the package build. Is this what you mean? Thanks, Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Thoughts about src-dep implementation

1999-10-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
eing with you. Thanks, Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Thoughts about src-dep implementation

1999-10-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
This is not a good idea. To me it shows that trying to be overly clever with automagically depends generation backfires too easily. Well, all IMNSHO, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.o

Re: Build dependencies: some thoughts

1999-10-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
hubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Build dependencies: some thoughts

1999-10-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
I think this is obvious. Forget what I said about it. I didn't grok what you said. Actually, what you say above makes perfectly sense. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor

Re: Build-depends => change policy wording

1999-10-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
common. I am all for making it easier to bootstrap Debian, but let's first add source deps, and after a year, we can analyze the data with graph theory. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://w

Re: Source dependencies: are we ready?

1999-10-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
/www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#46516: PROPOSAL] MIME support sub-policy

1999-10-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
specially for people who work offline most of the time. Also, updating this with dpkg is preferred. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECT

starting/stopping daemons in package scripts

1999-09-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
n god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/

Bug#45318: PROPOSAL] Ammend contrib definition

1999-09-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/

Bug#43787: well, here it is: alternate proposal (was: changed title...)

1999-09-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 02:45:50PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 10-Sep-99, 08:04 (CDT), Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Raul suggested to mention core dumps, which is indeed a good idea. > > I extended this to give a

Bug#43787: well, here it is: alternate proposal (was: changed title...)

1999-09-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
too.) i would like to hear other peoples opinion on that. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/

Bug#43787: well, here it is: alternate proposal (was: changed title...)

1999-09-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
), + or testing and developing the software. Therefore it is + recommended to support building the package with + debugging information through the following interface: Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brin

Bug#43787: well, here it is: alternate proposal (was: changed title...)

1999-09-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 04:28:08AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > I have written down what I think to be a better proposal Of course, because I am utterly stupid, I forgot to attach the beast. --- policy.sgml.old Fri Sep 10 03:45:13 1999 +++ policy.sgml Fri Sep 10 04:10:2

Bug#43787: alternate proposal (was: changed title...)

1999-09-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
od.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/

Re: Bug#43787: changed title, and remade the proposed change

1999-09-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
n think of for (c) are: don't use =debug or somehow rename > the package at build time. In case of (c), I would say the above suggestion (strip being default), addresses it. OTOH, we never can prevent random errors/failure conditions. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.'

Re: Bug#43787: changed title, and remade the proposed change

1999-09-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:48:48AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 08:14:36PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:20:48AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > "You have to implement debugging this way if you are going to > &g

Re: Bug#43787: changed title, and remade the proposed change

1999-09-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
a great proposal of you, that accomplishes such a difficult goal. Marcus -- `Lack of ambition is a sin.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/

Re: Bug#43787: changed title, and remade the proposed change

1999-09-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:32:17PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 02:45:19PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 09:24:06PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > > (2) You want some way to prevent the executables from being stripped &g

Re: Bug#43787: changed title, and remade the proposed change

1999-09-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 09:24:06PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 02:19:36AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Raul, how hard do you want to make it for users to build with debugging > > info? Activating a gcc wrapper, changing install and strip. This is

Re: Bug#43787: changed title, and remade the proposed change

1999-09-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
pe this is possible some day. But this is not achievable currently, I know. Still, I think we should at least try. I hpoe my point is now more clear. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU

Re: Bug#43787: changed title, and remade the proposed change

1999-09-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Raul Miller wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > This is why I think a suggestion is too weak. You can equally well remove > > the suggestion, because I can't rely on it and have to check always if a > > package follows the

Re: Bug#43787: changed title, and remade the proposed change

1999-09-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 03:14:56PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 01:11:33PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > > If the binaries can be debugged in the build directories, then there's > >

Re: Bug#43787: changed title, and remade the proposed change

1999-09-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
estion or does it differently. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homep

Re: Policy about policy

1999-09-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
. Am I exaggerating? Probably. But as E.W. Heine said, you have sometimes to aim higher to hit the middle of the target. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key

Re: Bug#43787: changed title, and remade the proposed change

1999-09-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
lems with sloppy parts of the policy in the past (look at the conffile vs configuration file mess, for example). A few days more or less now don't matter. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/

Bug#43787: changed title, and remade the proposed change

1999-09-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
gs are filed against the package. I think this note is unnecessary and can be deleted without substitute. The rest is fine. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor p

Re: Policy about policy

1999-09-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
the dark: proposing random > constitutional ammendments isn't going to make me feel any easier. If this is the other main point of you we should ask the DPL for approval of our work. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server M

Re: Policy about policy

1999-09-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
stitution is needed. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/

Re: [PROPOSAL] changing policy on compiling with -g .. a better way

1999-09-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
an be compiled with the available tools (useful for bootrstapping, see Dale Scheetz thread :) of course, those options will be in other proposals. If you don't like this example, ignore it and make up your own. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debia

Re: [PROPOSAL] changing policy on compiling with -g .. a better way

1999-09-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/

Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-08-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
o Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09

Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-08-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
tion. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09

Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-08-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ryone that it's not important that you change from > to just yet if you don't feel like it; even if you think my I agree, but this is not what I say. What I say is: "You can do either or , but we'd prefer " is worse than "You must do , and if you don't

Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

1999-08-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
elieve that introducing major changes in the policy manual and having a smooth transition is not a contradiction, even if all packages suddenly don't comply to policy any longer. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brink

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