[Pkg-xen-devel] Extraneous kruft [signed]

[Jeremy T. Bouse [c]]

    Looking through the build files I'm wondering if we can't do some
clean-up and remove extraneous kruft before we release. Like the
config.dbs and the README.build that talks about the config.dbs. From
looking through the build setup I don't see either file actually
critically needed and looks like Ralph may have come to a similar
conclusion by the comments added to the README.build file.

    Also looking at the various *.install files I think a lil bit of
shuffling of which package contains what might be in order. I notice
that the libxen-dev simply has the header files and the COPYING doc file
(which appears to be put in the wrong location). While libxen3.0 has all
the static (*.a) and dynamic (*.so*) libraries.

    Typically as I've seen done in a great many packages is that the .a
static libraries and the .so dynamic libraries go in the -dev package
while the .so.<version> and .so.<full-version> dynamic libraries make it
in the actual library package. This is the case with libfwbuilder that I
maintain as well as I've seen in X11, ncurses and many others. I think
for consistency and the fact the .a and .so libraries are only needed
for development we should go ahead and change this.

    As I've said I want to see this work by consensus rather than
dictatorship I'd like some input before I commit these changes. I think
we're getting a good jump on things and we should with any luck have
some packaging to test soon. I've got a 64bit AMD waiting on xen-3.0 so
I can move my mail and web server from VMWare.

    Regards,
    Jeremy


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