-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote: > This is a false positive on the check for affected C++ libraries; although > the felix package does ship a .so file in /usr/lib, it contains no soname > and the package provides no shlibs, so there's no way that there could be > reverse-dependencies that would be helped by a change of this package's > name. Its also not really a problem because of the semantics of the felix compiler. To run a flx program, one does 'flx foo.flx', which generates a .so file (linked to /usr/lib/libflx_dynamic.so) and then dlopens it during the run... it does not actually create an executable. Therefore, if libflx_dynamic.so changes, foo.so will automatically be rebuilt.
> However, given that the package does include header files, and that the .so > file *is* shipped in /usr/lib, it seems likely that the intention is for > felix to be usable as a shared library; so I'm leaving this bug at severity: > serious, since it seems there are some general library packaging issues that > need a closer look before including felix in a release. Right, upstream and I have discussed this. The correct place for that file is in /usr/lib/felix, but to change this would require a rather large patch against the compiler, so I went ahead and placed it in /usr/lib for the time being, and upstream is working on moving it to /usr/lib/felix as development continues. Since the language is still in heavy development, its kind of a chicken and egg problem to know exactly what kind of file-layout/semantics to use with the compiler without having many users, so we agreed to upload this as is for now. Cheers, - -Mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDjIrp7ZPKKRJLJvMRAt3zAKCEWvNiyNGPHADg9rIEl7+42sMJ/wCfaALT SWfBKoQTEK8wQ7P0cymnf1I= =vMNX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
