Hi Santiago, On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 08:12:43PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> I have just uploaded gettext_0.18.1.1-6 for unstable using (most) of > your patch. Thanks a lot! Great to see this uploaded :) > While looking at the patch I noticed a few missing things that you > might want to fix in Ubuntu: > - There were no Section and Priority for libgettextpo0. As a result, this > library seems to be in section "devel" in Ubuntu 12.04. Ah, oops. Well, I must say we don't pay much attention to sections in Ubuntu. > - There was not a call to dpkg-shlibdeps in libgettextpo0. As a > result, libgettextpo0 has a lot of unwanted dependencies, as it seems > to reuse the shlibs:Depends variable from gettext binary package. Oops again. Well caught! > There are also some things for which I'm unsure: > - As we are both moving libgettextpo0 to another package and moving to > multiarch, "libgettextpo0" does not really share any files with > "gettext", so the "Replaces" was not strictly necessary, but I can > think about some scenarios where it could still be useful (for > example, compatibility with a backport to squeeze which does not do > multiarch yet), and that's why I've decided to keep it. Ok. You're right that it's not strictly necessary; I overlooked the fact that there were no files in common, but it's obvious now that you mention it. > - It is not clear to me where static .a libraries should go in > multiarch. I've done what the patch did, which is to keep them in > /usr/lib in gettext (which is a -dev package) as I understand that the > priority here was to switch library packages. It's allowed by multiarch, and implemented by gcc/binutils, to have .a files in the /usr/lib/$arch directory as well. But there's no point in moving them so long as they're shipped in the same package that contains binaries in /usr/bin, since gettext won't be co-installable for multiple architectures. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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