On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:10:51PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > > That too. :) I also wanted to make it possible to reference any > > manual section from within a manual page without hard-coding the section > > numbers. > > You wanted the section not to be dependent on the suffix? Is that correct? No, I mean that I want manpages to be able to say: .SH "SEE ALSO" X(__mansuffix__), sbrk(__ossyscallmansuffix__), malloc(__oslibmansuffix__), mouse(__osdrivermansuffix__), mouse(__drivermansuffix__), hosts(__osfilemansuffix__), fortune(__osgamemansuffix__), ...and so forth. > > Because I never submitted them. > > May I submit them. I doubt DD will accept them, but I would like to try. Sure. You may want to improve the description of the patch now that I have bothered to explain it. :) > > If you need imake, you B-D on the package that contains it. > > > > $ dpkg -S bin/imake > > xutils: /usr/X11R6/bin/imake > > I figured that out after the message. Oops :-) :) > > $ % grep-dctrl -F Build-Depends,Build-Depends-Indep -s Package xutils > > /var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources > > |wc -l 271 > > > > Perhaps not all of those build-depend on imake (there are other things > > in xutils), but I'll bet you most of them do. > > Maybe imake should be split into its own package so that this can be more > easily tracked? I don't think that is sufficient reason to split a package. XFree86 already produces a dizzying number of binary packages. I'm open to other arguments why splitting imake might be a good idea, though. > > I disagree with your premise and your conclusion. > > That is probably more sane than me :-). I was trying to make patches smaller > for the 4.4 cycle. Thanks for discussing this with me. Making patches smaller/more sane/etc. is good and valuable work, and I appreciate your efforts to make the 4.4 cycle less user-angering than 4.3's has been. However, we must take care not to throw out the baby with the bathwater. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Men use thought only to justify Debian GNU/Linux | their wrong doings, and speech only branden@debian.org | to conceal their thoughts. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Voltaire
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