On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 10:18:37AM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > This is absurd. You're right about that much. As for everything else... > One of the problems with this Debian policy violation is that > it is not always reproducible as a bug on other folks machines. > However feel free to ask on debian-powerpc and the will confirm > that it is in fact wrong to use non-fPIC static libs in a shared > lib on ppc and in fact any arch under Debian. > Branden seems to have gone off the deep end here. All I am > trying to do is eliminate a serious policy violation in libsdl. YOU ARE ON CRACK. I DO DEVELOPMENT **DAILY** ON THE POWERPC AND IA64 ARCHITECTURES, BOTH OF WHICH DO NOT PERMIT THE LINKING OF STATIC OBJECTS WITHOUT RELOCATION INFORMATION INTO SHARED LIBRARIES. I SAW THIS BUG MONTHS AGO, AND SO DID MANY OTHER DEBIAN DEVELOPERS. WE ARE NOT BABES IN THE WOODS. I RESENT YOUR IMPLICATION THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON JUST AS I RESENT -- ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS -- THE MASSIVE SPAM ATTACK YOU LAUNCHED SEVERAL WEEKS AGO TRYING TO GET EVERYONE TO PUT "-z combreloc" INTO ALL OF THEIR BINARIES WHILE WE WERE (AND ARE) IN A FREEZE. PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS AND REALIZE THAT THE DEBIAN PROJECT EXISTED LONG BEFORE YOU BECAME COGNIZANT OF IT. MORE TO THE POINT, READ http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200110/msg00353.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200111/msg00028.html AND GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL THAT EVERY SINGLE GOD DAMN ONE OF THE POINTS YOU ARE RAISING HAS ALREADY BEEN ADDRESSED. > Again, I'm just reporting a real bug in these packages > that impacts Debian ppc sid (and probably other arches). > Don't flame me just because you don't want to hear a real > problem. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200110/msg00353.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200111/msg00028.html AGAIN, THE PROBLEM WAS WELL-KNOWN LONG BEFORE YOU PRANCED IN HERE WITH YOUR BAD ATTITUDE. -- G. Branden Robinson | There's nothing an agnostic can't Debian GNU/Linux | do if he doesn't know whether he branden@debian.org | believes in it or not. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Graham Chapman
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