Package: x264 Version: 2:0.116.2042+git178455c-1 Severity: wishlist Bug forwarded from https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/919509
Seems that according to Policy ยง10.2, we need to document why we are not building the shared library with -fPIC in the file README.Debian and get consensus on that on the debian-devel mailing list. The reason is that x264 uses a lot of hand written assembler, and upstream takes care to use non-pic code only on architectures that support this. Btw, the same applies to the libav* packages. Cheers, Reinhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120123135322.14419.36245.report...@faui43f.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
