Bug#278536: debian-policy: Please add INSTALL_PLUGIN for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS support snippets
Hi,
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:13:05 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs <alfie@debian.org> said:
> It would be nice to have added to the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS support
> snippet
> an INSTALL_PLUGIN alias.
This is not a bug in policy, policy is not supposed to be
exhaustive. You have not demonstrated why this merits being mandated
in policy rather than being something fit for the developers
reference; "wouldn't it be nice" things are generally a poor fit for
policy.
> Rationale: If we strip only through INSTALL_PROGRAM people tend to
> install plugins for various programs with executable permissions
> set. A seperate INSTALL_PLUGIN alias would only differ in the
> INSTALL_PROGRAM in its permission changed from 755 to 644. This
> additionally to doing it right[tm] helps people understand that
> plugins for e.g. xmms, gkrellm or whatever doesn't need to be have
> execute permisson, but still get stripped/not stripped through
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS handling.
This is not even a proposal, there have been no test
implementations described, there is no suggested wording (even if
this merited going into policy, which it does not). This seems to be
more like a discussion starter that should happen on debian-devel
_first_, rather than a policy proposal.
Since this is neither a bug, nor a proposal, I am closing this
report.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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