first package: pd-wiimote

[Felipe Sateler]

On 05/09/10 12:18, 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:
>>>
>>> On Sep 2, 2010, at 3:36 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 01:07 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>> Looks pretty good to me, but I'm just learning myself :)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for having a look.
>>>> One thing I like to mention: The upstream sources come with a Makefile
>>>> based on a apparently old Makefile template for libdirs. It was pretty
>>>> broken and created superfluous directories in debian/. I copied over
>>>> the
>>>> current template, adapted it and applied it as a quilt patch. Is that
>>>> the proper way to do it?
>>>>
>>>>> I am
>>>>> wondering about the strip stuff:
>>>>>
>>>>> override_dh_strip:
>>>>> strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note --strip-
>>>>> unneeded \
>>>>> debian/pd-wiimote/usr/lib/pd/extra/wiimote/wiimote.pd_linux
>>>>>
>>>>> My guess is that this is needed in order to properly strip
>>>>> the .pd_linux so binaries?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, dh_strip apparently does not consider .pd_linux files as shared
>>>> objects and also there is no way to force it by passing it file
>>>> names as
>>>> arguments.
>>>>
>>>> I used the strip command from a mail by Felipe Sateler [1]
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2010-August/012336.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Roman
>>>
>>> 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.
> 
> 
> Makes sense.  My question is: does it make sense to maintain a manual
> strip target like this?  Could we run into cross-arch issues with the
> strip target, for example?

I wouldn't preemtively worry about that. If/When somebody wants to cross
build pd, worry about cross building it


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler