Bug#66023: marked as done ([ACCEPTED 22/05/2001] Treat plugins and shared libraries differently)
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From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
To: Debian bug reports <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: [PROPOSAL] Treat plugins and shared libraries differently
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daveb@idealab.com wrote:
IANAD. But I want to be... :)
In any event, I hope the following
change can be made so my package
(gdam at http://www.ffem.org/gdam)
can be made lintian clean.
=====================================================================
PROPOSAL:
Shared libraries and "plugins" should be
distinguished (and defined) explicitly by policy.
The intent is that policy section 4.3 will
no longer apply to plugins, just shared libraries.
PROPOSED CHANGE:
I propose prepending text like the following to
section 4.3.
Shared libraries are .so files containing compiled
code that are loaded by the ld.so(5) library.
They must always be installed in the directories listed
in ld.so.conf. (Applications may also have private .so files,
often called `plugins', which are stored `/usr/lib/program_name';
they are exempt from all the rules in this section, except that they
must not be installed executable).
EXPLANATION:
- The change is largely a clarification, since
the original text didn't define which files
exactly were shared-libraries.
- There are many packages which could use this change
(some cited in bug #42399, which is also against lintian
about this problem):
mozilla, netscape, nessusd, quake-glide-libs,
gql. Not sure exactly how many in total.
- The considerations in section 4.3 largely pertain
to smoothly updating the shared-libraries
given the behavior of ld.so and ldconfig,
which are not used for plugins.
=====================================================================
Thanks for your time,
Dave Benson
daveb@ffem.org
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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 00:30:50 +0100
From: Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>
To: 66023-done@bugs.debian.org, 89473-done@bugs.debian.org,
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Subject: debian-policy_3.5.5.0_i386.changes INSTALLED
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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 10:23:07 -0400
From: Debian Installer <installer@ftp-master.debian.org>
Subject: debian-policy_3.5.5.0_i386.changes INSTALLED
To: Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>,
Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Installing:
debian-policy_3.5.5.0.tar.gz
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.5.5.0.tar.gz
policy-process.txt.gz byhand
libc6-migration.txt byhand
fhs.txt byhand
debian-policy_3.5.5.0_all.deb
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.5.5.0_all.deb
perl-policy.txt.gz byhand
menu-policy.txt.gz byhand
mime-policy.txt.gz byhand
virtual-package-names-list.txt byhand
upgrading-checklist.txt byhand
fhs-2.1.html.tar.gz byhand
policy.pdf.gz byhand
menu-policy.html.tar.gz byhand
policy.html.tar.gz byhand
mime-policy.html.tar.gz byhand
debconf_specification.html byhand
debconf_specification.txt.gz byhand
policy.txt.gz byhand
policy-process.html.tar.gz byhand
perl-policy.html.tar.gz byhand
debian-policy_3.5.5.0.dsc
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.5.5.0.dsc
policy.ps.gz byhand
Changes: debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
* Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
3.0.0 onwards
* Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
* This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
* Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
* Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
debian/rules to do this
* Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
patches are incorporated upstream
* Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
* Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
* Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
clearer (add "for use by scripts")
* Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
* Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
closes: Bug#89674
* Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
system closes: Bug#91249
* Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
* Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
* Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
* OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
* The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
* The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
* Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
* Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
* Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
* Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
* Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
Announcing to debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org
Setting bugs to severity fixed: 66023 89473 89674 91249 91252 91257 91259 91260 91261 92744 94995 95906 97072 98712
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
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