[Debian-olpc-devel] 'rainbow' uploaded to mentors.debian.net

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:56:49PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 13:58, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>
>> That was the Python part. The makefile is still used for compiling 
>> the NSS library, and you need to ensure that Debian Policy §10.1 is 
>> respected.  As an example, upstream use -O3 for a security-related 
>> library, and without being an expert in the area it is my 
>> understanding that optimizations stronger than -O2 has a higher risk 
>> of producing wrong code on unusual architectures like hppa.
>>
>
>I'm not too familiar with it either. Michael: is there any particular 
>reason for using -O3 on normal systems?

Please beware that the -O3 optimization was an *example* - my main point 
is to warn about relying on simple makefiles properly handling all the 
nitty gritty details required/recommended/encouraged to do in Debian.



>>> The only reason I had to hand-code was because the same structures 
>>> you referenced didn't build a usable package when I attempted to use 
>>> them. I more than welcome any changes you would suggest to get these 
>>> defaults to work without odd hacks.
>>>
>>  I believe that now after you've moved the Python code to a 
>> policy-compliant python-* package you can drop the 
>> DEB_PYTHON_MODULE_PACKAGES line from the rules file and still produce 
>> the exact same result.
>>
>
>Removing the line caused debuild to die with:
> dh_install: python-rainbow missing files (usr/lib/python*), aborting
>
>Once I removed usr/lib/python* from python-rainbow.install, the packages
>built, but python-rainbow did not include the Python code.

What else changed during build? Did distutils rules get invoked at all? 
If it did, where did it install its files (hint: probably somewhere 
below debian/tmp)?

Perhaps try the trick mentioned in the NEWS file of cdbs. But don't just 
do it blindly - please try to understand what is the logic behind it.


I generally do my best to *not* provide you bulletproof solutions, but 
inspirations on how to move on and both improve the concrete packaging 
and also learn more.


Regards,

  - Jonas

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