[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#278536: debian-policy: Please add INSTALL_PLUGIN for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS support snippets



On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:00:29PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 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. 

You may have missed the fact that Gerfried proposal pertains to an 
example code included in the Policy document. Since Debian Policy
and the Debian policy document share the same bug page, this report
was not completly out of place.

Having detailed and up-to-date examples in the policy document is 
certainly worthwhile since new maintainers might use them as templates.

Whether we want to update the example as proposed is still something
we need to decide independently of any changes in policy.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here. 



Reply to: