Re: RFC/RFS: bfilter, aspell-hr, myspell-hr

[Vedran Furač <vedranf@riteh.hr>]

Kari Pahula wrote:
> Mailed to mentors, we like to do stuff in public and I don't claim to
> be infallible, either.  ;-)

OK!

> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:09:49AM +0200, Vedran Fura? wrote:
>> Kari Pahula wrote:
>>> As far as the technical side of packaging goes, it seems to be mostly
>>> in a good shape.  One thing you should see about is not compiling
>>> statically the included libraries (boost and libjs, at least) but
>>> using the shared libraries in Debian already.  It would save space on
>>> users' systems and is a good practice securitywise.
>>>
>>> Try to make a patch to send to upstream about this change.  I'm sure
>>> they wouldn't mind having optional configure switches to not build the
>>> included libraries and using the ones present on a system.  It would
>>> save your workload in the long run, too.
>> I mailed him, here is his response:
>>
>> "That can be done, and I am willing to do it if debian/ubuntu teams
>> insist on it, but this solution has its problems:
> 
> I was thinking of a configure option to not compile the included
> libraries but to use the ones present on the system already and leave
> as the default behaviour what bfilter's build system currently does.

Upstream sent me a patch, this is fixed know (I hope).

% ldd /usr/bin/bfilter

[...]
libmozjs.so.0d => /usr/lib/libmozjs.so.0d (0xb7cf6000)
libboost_program_options-gcc-mt-1_33_1.so.1.33.1 =>
/usr/lib/libboost_program_options-gcc-mt-1_33_1.so.1.33.1 (0xb7cc3000)
libboost_regex-gcc-mt-1_33_1.so.1.33.1 =>
/usr/lib/libboost_regex-gcc-mt-1_33_1.so.1.33.1 (0xb7c19000)
[...]

>> You mean something like this:
>> $ grep -rih copyright bfilter-1.0.2/ | sort -ufi
>> ...is the right way? Yes, quite long.
> 
> I'd do something like this:

Done. Please check the new release.

Regards,

Vedran Furač