On Sunday 07 September 2003 10:54, Ben Burton wrote: > > Therefore I'd rather like to add --enable-final as a DEB_BUILD_OPTION in > > the debian/rules files in the CVS modules rather than having it enabled > > globally. > > Sure, but for the modules I maintain I'll be using --enable-final by > default in debian/rules, since (i) as the maintainer I want my build > environment to be the same as used by others (including buildds, etc), > (ii) I have an old machine and so --enable-final makes a difference to > me, and (iii) it won't break anything since when I add --enable-final > I'll be patching the sources to remove any resulting errors. > > Moreover, I'd suggest that we use --enable-final by default across all > kde*/debian/rules files, since (i) we as the maintainers of formal KDE > modules will know what we're doing, (ii) we all have commit permissions > and so will be able to patch any compile errors, and (iii) passing > --enable-final in debian/rules won't propagate to 3rd-party apps either > through admin/ or through the dh_make template. > > This solution is most pleasing to me since it satisfies my desire for an > --enable-final KDE build and yet resolves the 3rd-party app / 3rd-party > packager problem that you have identified. > > > Enabling it again when HEAD gets packaged is ok with me but for now until > > december it doesn't make much sense to have it enabled anyway. > > Sure, I won't even be looking at it until we get to packaging HEAD. I > probably wouldn't even be arguing so much now, except that I anticipate > that when I do prepare KDE 3.2 packages and add --enable-final to > debian/rules, there will be arguments about inconsistencies between > defaults in different modules. Sure. That was the sense behind removing it from debianrules - add it to debian/rules directly across the KDE modules :-) > > In other news, koffice-i18n has just been accepted, so it should be good > for sarge. Cool :-) Ralf > > b. :) -- We're not a company, we just produce better code at less costs. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralf Nolden nolden@kde.org The K Desktop Environment The KDevelop Project http://www.kde.org http://www.kdevelop.org
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