On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 14:22 +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote: [...] > Thanks for the patch (see [1]). > Is the misbehaviour with "/usr/include/perf.h" provided by > firebird-dev package gone with that patch? Yes. (I actually just put a #error directive in that file.) > Should firebird-dev rename its "perf.h" to something like > "firebird_perf.h" to avoid such a misbehaviour? No, not at all. (But it shouldn't be installed if it's not usable, which it doesn't seem to be. Reported as bug #685391.) > [3] Repacking Linux vanilla source now obsolete > > Thanks, this was really appreciated (see [2])! > > [ debian/bin/genorig.py (r19335) ] > > [CODE] > Line #105: match = > re.match(r'(^|.*/)(?P<dir>linux-\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)?(-\S+)?)\.tar(\.(?P<extension>(bz2|gz)))?$', > input_tar) > [CODE] > > It is possible to get xz-tarball support (currently bzip2 or gzip)? This hasn't been a priority for me since I generate the orig tarball from git (and I think other maintainers do the same now). Patches welcome, though. You can cover all compression methods with the '-a' option to tar, by the way. > Or to go a step further, what about an xz-compressed linux-tools orig-tarball? > Here from my generated tarball (sizes in KiB): > > $ tar -xf linux-tools_3.5.orig.tar.gz > $ tar -c --xz -f linux-tools_3.5.orig.tar.xz linux-tools-3.5/ > $ du -k *.orig* > 9280 linux-tools_3.5.orig.tar.gz > 6316 linux-tools_3.5.orig.tar.xz > > Approx. 3MiB should be a good reason :-)? > Note: The default compression-level of xz is "-6" and "-9" is maximum > (see man xz). Again, patches welcome. > [4] Debian-Kernel Wiki > > There is a different handling of linux-2.6/linux-kbuild-2.6 VS. > linux/linux-tools. [...] No-one should ever need to build linux-kbuild-2.6 again, so feel free to delete anything that doesn't apply to linux-tools. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg
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