Re: Policy exceptions?
Magosanyi Arpad wrote
> On Tue, Feb 10, 1998 at 05:51:45PM +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have been pondering something similar. DMALLOC, is a malloc debugger library.
> > When I took over the package I split it in two, a shared library and the
> > corresponding development kit but in all honesty and with hindsight I think
> > this is just wrong. There is never going to be a reason for creating packages
> > that depend on a dmalloc shared library other than dmalloc itself. So the
> > question is, should I join everything back into one package and ignore the
> > policy in this case?
> No. I don't think that you can be sure that noone ever will use your library
> for other programs it is designed for. The simplest cases:
> -someone creates another interface for the same task with the same library
> (e.g. X gui)
> -someone writes a program which uses a helper function from the lib, just
> for convenience.
> I think that there are good reasons for this policy. If you don't think so,
> go to debian-policy and make a proposal.
>
> ---
> GNU GPL: csak tiszta forrásból
The fact is electric-fence which is the closest to my package does exactly
what I am proposing.
To apply the policy here is wrong (IMHO).
Luis.
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