Bug#154660: FTBFS: missing build-dependencies

2002-07-28 Thread Randolph Chung
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.6.1 Severity: serious The debian-policy package is missing a build-dependency on docbook-utils; the package does not build from source. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#138409: PROPOSAL] Add build environment data to .changes files

2002-03-15 Thread Randolph Chung
> And the bit > about standards version is a red herring, really: packages are > supposed to be current with policy (which is why policy froze) -- it > is just that stable releases have packages that conform to policy as > it existed then. Packages in Sid need to be current (can't claim > anci

Bug#138409: PROPOSAL] Add build environment data to .changes files

2002-03-15 Thread Randolph Chung
> > 2. Ideally one might want to recursively list all the dependents of build- > > dependencies too, but that is probably too expensive to compute. > On my Pentium 166MHz, the following command took about 10s (real) to > run, with devscripts (>= 2.6.90) installed: Thanks, that was good to know. o

Bug#138409: [PROPOSAL] Add build environment data to .changes files

2002-03-15 Thread Randolph Chung
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Proposal: This is a proposal to add information about a package's build environment to the "changes" file that accompanies the upload of each package. The build environment information contains the versions of packages used to build the given package. The

Re: cleaning up our task packages

2000-12-07 Thread Randolph Chung
Some time ago, I think there was a proposal to change the way task packages are put together. Instead of task-* packages, relevant packages would have something like: Task: programming/c If people want the kind of flexibility described in the thread (trees, subtrees, etc). We should look into imp

Bug#53755: Seconds

2000-01-02 Thread Randolph Chung
I second Branden's proposals. randolph -- @..@ http://www.TauSq.org/ () ( >__< ) ^^ ~~ ^^ pgpdT4cryfGcZ.pgp Description: PGP signature