Am 28.07.2017 um 22:06 schrieb Helmut Grohne: > 2. The debcrossgen.py script needs some place to live. When debhelper > and meson are installed together, it needs to be in the filesystem. > An easy approach to do so is to put it into the meson binary > package. We should probably spend a little discussing bike shedding > questions such as: > a. What path/filename to use? > b. What options/arguments should it take? > 3. debhelper needs to call debcrossgen.py during cross compilation and > add the --cross-file option. This one is straight forward to > implement once the questions from 2. are answered.
My gut feeling is, that this functionality should be shipped in debhelper directly, specifically in the meson build system class [1]. debhelper is written in perl, and I don't think we want to add a dependency on Python. But the debcrossgen.py code looks straightforward enough to be ported to perl. That said, if Jussi thinks that this script might be useful for other distros / use cases, then shipping it upstream in the meson package might be an option as well. Jussi, what would you prefer? Michael [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debhelper/debhelper.git/tree/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/meson.pm -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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