Re: Bug#23618: debmake: debstd corrupts .a files!
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I'm sorry, but saying that I should not use debmake because it is
buggy does not fix the bug and the bug should not be closed!
Corrupting files in packages that I am building is very serious
indeed, and if I didn't set the severity to important or greater, I
probably should have. debstd issues no warnings about it, and it took
me several hours to figure out the problem, since this is a package
with a source tree of over 100 megs and each rebuild takes in excess
of 30 minutes. (Not only that, but the install method is complex and
I looked everywhere else first, assuming that "it could not possibly
be debstd")
Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> debstd is not supposed to guess that. stripping a library using
> just strip --strip-debug is ok for 95% of cases, if your case is in the
> remaining 5%, then the debstd provided by debmake is not suitable for your
> package. I would suggest either:
>
> a) debstd-ize your debian/rules
Eh? debian/rules already uses debstd.
> b) copy debstd to your debian directory and change the debstd invocation
> by "debian/debstd" (probably adding a chmod +x debian/debstd in the build
> target). Then you can fine-tune your own debstd according to the special
> requirements of your package.
OK, this could be a possibility then -- comment out that part. But
still, I don't think it's a good solution to require me to hack the
source. Further, there is no documentation anywhere that indicates
that debstd may corrupt files.
> I do not consider this to be a bug in debstd.
You are welcome to reassign it to the appropriate package (binutils?)
then, but it is not fixed and should not be closed.
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