On 26 October 2015 at 02:00, Vincent Pinon <[email protected]> wrote: >> - You might want to keep the epoch so that people installing those >> packages can upgrade to this version when it lands in debian. > I also think that we should start with a clear base in Debian, > so I reset the changelog (wiping the dmo & ubuntu-ppa mix, but keeping > copyright)... > >> - Please use the alioth list as the maintainer (check any other team >> package [eg, csound] for the name and address). In general please read >> the guidelines in the wiki[1] > Sorry, fixed, and read again the ref page :) > >> - Please drop the builddeb override, xz is the default. > done > >> - On i386, we need to disable sse, as it is not guaranteed to be >> available on all hosts. I think it can be loaded at runtime by using >> the hardware capabilities feature of glibc linker: >> - Compile the package twice, once with and once without sse. >> - Ship the non-sse version in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ >> - Ship the sse version in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sse2 >> - Then ld.so will choose the appropriate version at runtime (see >> the ld.so manpage for details). > Hum, a bit beyond my packaging knowledge... > Do you have an example?
It is a bit convoluted. Maybe we could start by force-disabling SSE on i386 and then later add a second sse version? > >> - debian/copyright needs dates updated (2010-2014 for the upstream part). > Done > > All these changes in forced-upload again: > https://mentors.debian.net/package/vid.stab > >> - You might want to forward the patch upstream. > Right, I will do it I see that Andreas Cadhalpun (in CC) expressed interest in this package and apparently already forwarded that patch upstream. Andreas, did you ever get a response on that? I'm adding the ITP (and all participants) back to CC to let them know about your work. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
