Bug#963524: fixed in debian-policy 4.7.0.0

2024-04-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
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Re: Bug#999598: dpkg-dev: Can we have binary package descriptions back for source uploads?

2021-11-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
checkers logtail- Print log file lines that have not been read (deprecated) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
on the fonts on disk, not the ones available via the X server, and am thus unsure if the quoted policy really is intended for the packages you talk about. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Which spell checkers to include by default? (Was: priorities)

2007-12-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
spell and myspell by default to use hunspell instead. The only package I use that are still using ispell is emacs. No idea how hard it would be to update, but it would be a good thing to support for example Hungarian and Nothern Sami spell checking in emacs. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
be nice if bash didn't use nss functions when it starts, and instead waited until one of the variables containing user information was requested, so you could try to submit such patch to upstream and see if they accept it. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two

2006-11-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
s, and thus loads the shared ldap library from /usr/ on invocation. This make it unusable in a system with LDAP users. Switching to dash as /bin/sh gave us a nice surprise with reduced memory consumption and faster boots as well, but that was not the reason why we switched. Friendly, -- Petter R

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#339955: sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/*.sh should be sourced in runlevel S

2005-11-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I'm not sure how this could happen, but when I enabled sourcing of the .sh scripts in rcS.d/, the boot failed because /etc/rcS.d/S01glibc.sh uses 'exit 0' at the end of the script, and thus terminates the S runlevel. This script was added in glibc version 2.3.5-5 uploaded 2005-08-27. The strange

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#339955: sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/*.sh should be sourced in runlevel S

2005-11-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Steve Langasek] > It's perfectly sensible: if the scripts were meant to be run in > parallel, they shouldn't have the ".sh" extension... Eh, are you claiming that policy mention sourcing of .sh scripts to make sure those scripts are not run in paralell? It does not sounds reasonable to me, as th

Re: sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/*.sh should be sourced in runlevel S

2005-11-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Brendan O'Dea] > I'm not quite sure what the initial rationale was, although Adam Heath > suggested on IRC that it could be to allow scripts to set environment > variables which would propagate through to subsequent scripts. I'm not sure why it is documented in policy, but the sysv-rc implementat

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#339955: sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/*.sh should be sourced in runlevel S

2005-11-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Brendan O'Dea] > Debian Policy states (ยง9.3.1): > >"Also, if the script name ends `.sh', the script will be sourced >in runlevel `S' rather that being run in a forked subprocess, but >will be explicitly run by `sh' in all other runlevels". What a strange thing for policy to specify.

Bug#176506: Make debconf mandatory for prompting the user

2003-01-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Adrian Bunk] > I'm currently working on things like automated upgrading of many > (>> 100) computers. Debian already includes much infrastructure that > makes this task relatively cheap. For packages using debconf for > prompting the user it's easy to give the answers without pressing enter > on 1