Re: Gnash 0.8.3 backport (with PPC support)

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

Hi Sylvain,

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 09:35:57AM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> +gnash (0.8.3-1~bpo40+1) etch-backports; urgency=low
> +
> +  * Rebuild for Debian Backports <http://www.backports.org/>
> +  * Disabled -fvisibility-inlines-hidden
> +    (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22753) so it builds on PPC

> +-CHECK_VISIBILITY_GCC_BUG
> ++dnl CHECK_VISIBILITY_GCC_BUG

Is this the fix that will be merged upstream?  Looks like a workaround.

> +  * Removed --ignore-missing-info option to dh_shlibdeps which doesn't
> +    exist in Etch

Is there a way in which this can be merged?  Perhaps by using
"grep -- --ignore-missing-info /usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps" to probe for
this feature?

> -Uploaders: Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com>, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
> +Uploaders: Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com>, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>, Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net>

You don't need to add yourself to Uploaders when doing backports;  it is
assumed you can upload to backports.org regardless of what debian/control
says.

-- 
Robert Millan

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