first package: pd-wiimote

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Fri Sep 3 00:15:01 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 06:38:18PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>On Sep 2, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>>On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:58:57PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner 
>>wrote:
>>>I was under the impression that dh would set the strip options in 
>>>the $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) for the Makefile, so that an explicit 
>>>strip wasn't necessary.  Is that true?  If so, I'll change up the 
>>>pd packages to use INSTALL_PROGRAM and INSTALL_DATA properly.  I 
>>>don't know why I didn't do this to begin with.
>>
>>No, debhelper does not interfere with $(INSTALL_PROGRAM).  For 
>>Debian packaging binaries should not be stripped during build - 
>>then dh_strip should deal with stripping afterwards.
>>
>>Problem is, the unusual filenames goes below the radar of dh_strip, 
>>and (according to Felipe) dh_strip cannot be spoonfed additional 
>>files to strip.
>
>
>Ok, so unless anyone objects, I'm going to add this to all my pd 
>packages so they get stripped.  That includes pd-motex.  I guess that 
>means the package version gets incremented, since its currently in 
>NEW?

Correct, Debian revision needs a bump every time a new packaging is 
pushed to the archive, if that's what you meant.


  - Jonas

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