Russ Allbery: > Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > >> Thank you for following up. > >> Here is a minimal patch, for which I am seeking seconds. I didn't >> include a recommendation to use dh_strip because we generally keep such >> recommendations in footnotes rather than the text of Policy, and we are >> trying to reduce the number of footnotes -- but I don't mind adding it >> if others think it would be a good idea (and it wouldn't need >> seconding). > > Looks good to me. Seconded. > > On an entirely unrelated note (and probably a larger project than anyone > will be able to tackle any time soon), I think it would be very helpful if > we had some way of annotating what parts of Policy are just handled for > you if you use debhelper in the normal way (perhaps with references to the > tools involved). Maybe with background shading or an icon or something? > I think Policy needs to state all of the rules, including the ones > implemented by other tools, but at the same time nearly everyone doing > Debian packaging is using debhelper (either directly or indirectly), so > it's a bit of a disservice to people to ask them to wade through a bunch > of specifications for stuff that normally they don't and shouldn't think > about. >
I think I agree with your suggestion of shading policy requirements that are already covered by common tools. At the moment, I am hesitant as to whether I should second Sean's text as it is or point out that text fails to handle cross-building[1] (note the cross building issue is not a regression). On one front, it would be technically correct - on the other front, I fear most maintainers will be overloaded by irrelevant details that is already handled for them. Well, given it is not a regression, the choice is strictly speaking "obvious" in this case but the general issue stands. Thanks, ~Niels [1] For cross build support, you would have to use "$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)-strip" rather than "strip"... Except if you are doing a "Canadian Cross" build in which case you *might* need "$(DEB_TARGET_GNU_TYPE)-strip" instead in very rare cases. Plus you have to ensure DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE is defined - either by including a dpkg makefile (recommended) or defining it yourself via dpkg-buildflags which will imply $(shell ...). We would like to avoid the latter due to the high overhead involved in doing that.
