Hi,
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 06:33:20PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 15 December 2013 at 23:38, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> | On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 04:53:12PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | > | Happy to help if you want me to ;-) Github repo or alioth repo would
> | > | be fine. I can do that if you'd like me to, but probably not before
> | > | next weekend.
> | >
> | > One possible issue is that the same debian/* files are also used for the
> | > fairly widely deployed "ports" distributed via CRAN. They take what I
> stick
> | > into Debian unstable (where dpkg 1.17.2 may help) and rebuild for Debian
> | > stable and the various Ubuntu flavours. I work pretty closely with the two
> | > porters and would try to avoid creating extra work for them. But maybe
> they
> | > then just need to comment-in/out the FFLAGS setting...
> | >
> | > No strong feeling re GH or Alioth. Maybe Alioth is easier.
> |
> | Well, perhaps one could use code something like this (untested) to
> | save having porters having to deal with this problem individually.
> | Then when dpkg 1.17.2 is in oldstable, this can be done away with and
> | just the --get FFLAGS line can be left.
> |
> | # dpkg 1.17.2 fixed a bug with the definition of FFLAGS in dpkg-buildflags
> | dpkg_version = $(shell dpkg -s dpkg-dev | grep '^Version:' | cut -d' ' -f2)
> | newdpkg = $(shell if dpkg --compare-versions $(dpkg_version) ge
> | 1.17.2; then echo "yes"; else echo "no"; fi)
> |
> | ifeq ($newdpkg,"yes")
> | fflags = $(shell dpkg-buildflags --get FFLAGS)
> | else
> | fflags = $(shell dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS)
> | endif
>
> Yes, that may do. In general we just have to be a little careful. But I have
> imposed change on them, and they know how to just patch
> debian/{rules,control}
> as needed.
well, as a matter of fact, I am in the process of forgetting how to do
that as in recent times hardly any change was necessary in order to
build on Debian stable.
Cheers,
Johannes
>
> Dirk
>
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>
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