On 23-Jul-2005, skaller wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 10:18 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Why isn't the object file built from source > It is compiled to save time. Save whose time? People who want precompiled binaries will get them from the binary package, with *everything* already compiled for their particular architecture. To allow maximum portability and to ensure dependencies don't get accidentally broken without being noticed, the source package should only include files that can't be rebuilt from the other source files. > > Is the object file part of an existing Debian package? > > Yes. There is a bug in the package, the object file > doesn't go where it 'normally' does.. which lead to the > question where should a mainline object (.o) file be put.. Can you explain this some more? I can't see what situation is solved by putting an object file from one package into a different package's source. Surely the solution is to fix whatever bug is in the original package? -- \ "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we | `\ should be glad to serve others by any invention of ours." -- | _o__) Benjamin Franklin | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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