Rizsányi, Thanks for your comments which are spot on. I have forwarded to debian-release, but please feel free to post to debian-release directly.
Mark ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [Pkg-kde-extras] Re: KDE packages Date: Thursday 14 December 2006 18:17 From: Rizsányi Zsolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 14 December 2006 14:11, Tom Albers wrote: > At Thursday 14 December 2006 12:58, you wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 11:39:07AM +0000, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > > > * libkexif (0.2.5-2) > > > > Yes, this is a new upstream version, but it is a bugfix release, > > > > and it is necessary in order to avoid a lot of problems with > > > > digikam 0.8.2 (since digikam will be back to this version). > > > > > > debian/patches/98_buildprep.diff |53096 > > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- > > > > > You're kidding, right? Please explain to me why 2/3 of the build > > > system need to be replaced? > > How do I get that diff? I'm not sure if this is what you are asking, but the buildprep diff is generated using the create-buildprep script which is available from the pkg-kde svn repository (under svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-kde/scripts) and it simply reruns all the makefile magic (with debian/rules buildprep which in fact calls the make -f admin/Makefile.common) and then the diff of the original source and the one with the changes is put in this diff file. And to answer the original question: it is necessary so that the make system is rebuilt to use the debian tools (libtool). And that is necessary so that the library dependencies are reduced to a minimum as it was requested on debian-devel-announce (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00016.html) An alternative to solving this problem would be to invoke the automake tools during the normal build of the package, but some do not like this solution for various reasons (one being the added overhead on the buildd-s). I did not write this directly to the release team, because I'm not part of the pkg-kde-extras team, but you can forward my explanation if you consider it satisfactory. Regards, Zsolt _______________________________________________ pkg-kde-extras mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-extras -------------------------------------------------------
