Re: Looking for a sponsor for the OpenSurge and SurgeScript packages
> Thanks. I wonder why there is only a static library. Normally we use
> only shared libraries because if there was a security issue in
> surgescript we could just patch the shared library instead of fixing the
> same problem in many different packages. Although, granted, there is
> only one game that depends on surgescript at the moment.
I agree that at this point in time it's beneficial to have SurgeScript
as a shared library as well. I can make the necessary adjustments.
Alexandre
Em sex., 14 de fev. de 2020 às 09:54, Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> escreveu:
>
> Am 14.02.20 um 05:45 schrieb Carlos Donizete Froes:
> [...]
> >> d/changelog: New packages should just contain one line in the changelog.
> >> Initial release. (Closes: #xxxxxx)
> >
> > My first question: This "surgescript"[1] package is in Debian in an earlier version (0.5.4-1). Isn't
> > it a problem to leave just that line?
> >
> > [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/surgescript
>
> My bad. I thought the package was for NEW. Just reverting my commit that
> removes the changelog line should be sufficient.
>
> >
> >> At the moment there is only surgescript but shouldn't we split the
> >> package into libsurgescript and libsurgescript-dev because it is
> >> basically a C library? Currently there is only a static library
> >> installed into the package, /usr/lib/libsurgescript.a, and the path
> >> seems to be wrong by the way. I think we need a shared library as well.
> >
> > I can make a patch to correct the path of this library. Can you tell me which way is right for this
> > library?
>
> The multiarch specifier is missing. Usually we use an install file and
> the library is installed into the correct directory by using a *
> placeholder. Something like that
>
> https://sources.debian.org/src/imlib2/1.6.1-1/debian/libimlib2.install/
>
> For instance on amd64 the library should be installed to
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsurgescript.a
>
> > And I am sending our conversation with copies to the upstream (Alexandre Martins) of this software
> > to make future improvements.
>
> Thanks. I wonder why there is only a static library. Normally we use
> only shared libraries because if there was a security issue in
> surgescript we could just patch the shared library instead of fixing the
> same problem in many different packages. Although, granted, there is
> only one game that depends on surgescript at the moment.
>
> [...]
> > Wonderful! If it is not a problem for you, but you can change the icon added in the "opensurge" to
> > this icon found in the software.[2]
> >
> > [2] https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/opensurge/blob/master/src/misc/opensurge.png
>
> Done.
>
> Regards,
>
> Markus
>
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