Bug#528754: closed by Sune Vuorela <debian@pusling.com> (Re: Bug#528754: kdelibs do not build without avahi)
On Mon, 18 May 09 15:18, bugreporter@udmvt.ru wrote:
> I didn't understand, why you closed the bug. Seriously.
> Do you have enough expertise to read the mentioned patch file? (./debian/patches/98_buildprep.diff)
> If so, do it. If not, I will try to explain what I am seeing.
>
> So, first, there are the original source package. It builds OK.
> There are debianised sources - the added ./debian directory.
> That directory contains subdirectory ./patches.
> When you build .deb binary packages, you usually run debian/rules
> makefile. And it unconditionally applies .diff files from debian/patches
> directory (it really doesn't ask you). That's not my modification, that's Debian's.
> This report was about Debian package "kdelibs", not upstream's, not my own version.
>
> What is wrong with Debian's modifications to the package.
> It removes (otherwise provided by upstream) the option to build without
> some questionable and purely optional feature like "dnssd",
> that opens additional remote attack vectors, limited to local network.
> The files, that come from Debian maintainers (do you represent any of them?),
> break configure process if there is no libahavi development files present
> on the system.
Do you expect random people to close random bugreports?
> I have wrote already to the debian desktop mailing list and
> was told, that I have a freedom to recompile binary .debs from
> sources and without that exactly option.
>
> This report was to inform everyone, that it is no more true for Debian version
> of the kdelibs.
We do officially not support any kind of changes to the Debian packages
in the archive. I'm sorry, but if you change a Debian source package and it
does not work afterwards, you are on your own. You could use the sources
provided by upstream e.g.
Debian is not Gentoo. We do not support enabling/disabling random
features by recompiling.
Debian is all about the binary packages and unchanged source packages.
And anyway: KDE 3 is dead. There will be no uploads which do not fix
RC-Bugs. If we consider this to be a bug (and we don't), it changes nothing,
because it is definitely not RC and will therefore not be fixed.
Friendly,
Armin
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