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Re: [Ubuntu] Packaging Orfeo Toolbox for Debian



Andreas,
Could you finally get otb within debiangis? Is it possible to install
otb as a deb package?
Thanks
Agus

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I started the polishing of the packaging with the more simple tasks.
> When trying to silence the Debian policy checker lintian I fixed a
> spelling problem which has a repeated pattern.  Feel free to take over
> this patch:
>
>    https://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-grass/otb.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/spelling.patch
>
> The more problematic issue is:
>
> E: libotb: embedded-library usr/lib/otb/libotbopenjpeg.so.1111.1.0: openjpeg
> N:
> N:    The given ELF object appears to have been statically linked to a
> N:    library. Doing this is strongly discouraged due to the extra work needed
> N:    by the security team to fix all the extra embedded copies or trigger the
> N:    package rebuilds, as appropriate.
> N:
> N:    If the package uses a modified version of the given library it is highly
> N:    recommended to coordinate with the library's maintainer to include the
> N:    changes on the system version of the library.
> N:
> N:    Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 4.13 (Convenience copies of code)
> N:    for details.
> N:
> N:    Severity: serious, Certainty: possible
> N:
> N:    Check: binaries, Type: binary, udeb
> N:
> E: libotb: embedded-library usr/lib/otb/libotbtinyXML.so.4.0.0: tinyxml
>
>
> As lintian explains we need to avoid code copies and thus I wonder
> whether the copies of openjpeg and tinyXML are unchanged upstream
> sources or patched versions of these libraries.  If it is unchanged
> source it would be really enhance the packaging work if you could enable
> options for the build system to ignore this copy in favour of the
> libraries which are provided by Debian packages.
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:54:49AM +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> Thanks a lot for this work. I cannot do much for packaging, due to time and skill
>> constraints, but I'll be more than happy to help with testing and possibly other
>> tasks once a package is out.
>
> I wonder if you would feel capable to create the binary package from the
> packaging repository to test before any upload.  If not I would be able
> to provide preliminary *.deb packages at some web space.
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
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