Bug#658009: debian-policy: dpkg-buildpackage -rroot-command out of date

2012-01-30 Thread Sam Morris
Package: debian-policy Severity: minor C.1.2 says: If no root-command is supplied then dpkg-buildpackage will take no special action to gain root privilege, so that for most packages it will have to be invoked as root to start with. This is wrong according to the dpkg-bui

Bug#411510: debian-policy: Document use of /etc/ld.so.conf.d

2007-02-19 Thread Sam Morris
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.2 Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Policy section 10.2 currently states that packages installing libraries into private directories should edit /etc/ld.so.conf directly. There now seems to be an /etc/ld.so.conf.d directory into

Re: Bug#405997: should executables be permitted to update themselves?

2007-01-14 Thread Sam Morris
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Re: Policy 3.7.0 - /usr/lib/cgi-{bin|lib}

2006-05-03 Thread Sam Morris
On Wed, 03 May 2006 15:02:49 +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > I plan to do the following for the bugzilla package: > > 1/ Add a debconf note for notyfing the user about the location > change. As Wouter Verhelst said, don't do this! Put an entry in the NEWS.Debian file instead