On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:41:13PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > [Cc-ing debian-release to reach an RM; please keep the discussion on the bug > as I'm not subscribed to -release.] > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:21:34AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > >> But when there is no shared one, the static one is used, which simply does > >> not work; this is not pvm's fault. The rpvm configure script assumes that if > > Sure is pvm's fault: You are violating Policy by not providing a shared lib. > *sigh* This is obviously hard. Let me summarize: > - rpvm should NOT check for a static library if it cannot use a static > library. This is a bug in rpvm upstream. > - pvm should build a shared library for libgpvm3 as of Debian policy (but see > below). > > Please provide a shared library. > Would an RM please step in here and assist? To summarize: rpvm refuses to > work with static PVM libraries on some (non-i386) platforms. (Due to an rpvm > bug, it does not detect this at configure time; this works by accident on > i386 and some other platforms but fails on others.) PVM upstream only > provides static libraries; Debian PVM has provided a shared libpvm3 for ages > but no shared libgpvm3. I am rather reluctant to hacking a shared libgpvm3 > into a build system I am not intimately familiar with before sarge (I have > not maintained pvm all that long), even though lack of shared libraries is a > policy violation (or at least so it seems), as this has obviously been OK > with the world for ~3-4 years, and I don't want to possibly break pvm for > sarge. I don't believe this is a question for the release team to decide. The release managers have the authority to decide certain policy violations will not be RC, but this is a question of whether a particular bug is a policy violation at all. Please refer this to debian-devel if you need to establish a consensus for this issue. For my part, I don't see how this could be a serious bug in pvm. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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