Reinhard Tartler <siret...@tauware.de> writes: > 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. Sounds good to me. This is exactly the sort of package that can sometimes benefit from this and is pretty much in the center of the reason for that exception. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87vco2i8me....@windlord.stanford.edu
