Re: [Fink-devel] policy question

2005-02-21 Thread Joe Block
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 19, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David R. Morrison wrote: | The policy question is: should the new package download the libjpeg source | and copy the needed headers into its build tree, or

Re: [Fink-devel] policy question

2005-02-19 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David R. Morrison wrote: | The policy question is: should the new package download the libjpeg source | and copy the needed headers into its build tree, or should the libjpeg | package install the internal headers "by hand", for the benefit of this | ot

[Fink-devel] policy question

2005-02-19 Thread David R. Morrison
Folks, Here's a policy question. The libjpeg package, like many packages, uses a number of header files during compilation which are considered "internal," and only installs the "external" ones at install time. The external header files end up in the libjpeg package, but the internal ones don't.

Re: [Fink-devel] Policy question

2005-01-30 Thread Daniel Henninger
It was a new package submission where I told the author that they needed to change the /sw's to %p in some manner, and suggested looking at dpkg.info as an example of "patching the patch", but the author then said there was no need to do that and that they added a DescPackaging line to indicate tha

Re: [Fink-devel] Policy question

2005-01-30 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Henninger wrote: | Is this not against fink policy? | DescPackaging: << | Don't mind the following result: | $ fink -v validate xinitrc.info | Warning: Patch file appears to contain a hardcoded /sw. (xinitrc.patch) | | You must *manually* ensure

[Fink-devel] Policy question

2005-01-30 Thread Daniel Henninger
Is this not against fink policy? DescPackaging: << Don't mind the following result: $ fink -v validate xinitrc.info Warning: Patch file appears to contain a hardcoded /sw. (xinitrc.patch) You must *manually* ensure the prefix cleanness. << There are always sed-based methods to automate setting up

Re: [Fink-devel] Policy question: symbolic links for documentation

2002-03-09 Thread Max Horn
At 6:56 Uhr -0500 09.03.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: >I have a policy question to bring up, regarding our requirements for >documentation. Is the following OK? > >Package: foobar >Source: gnu >Depends: %N-shlibs (= %v-%r) >License: GPL >InstallScript: << > make install

[Fink-devel] Policy question: symbolic links for documentation

2002-03-09 Thread David R. Morrison
I have a policy question to bring up, regarding our requirements for documentation. Is the following OK? Package: foobar Source: gnu Depends: %N-shlibs (= %v-%r) License: GPL InstallScript: << make install prefix=%i mkdir -p %i/share/doc/%n ln -s %p/share/doc/%N-shl