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Bug#776748: (pre-approval) unblock: libxml2/2.9.1+dfsg1-5 (via t-p-u)



On Tue, Feb  3, 2015 at 02:23:20 +0800, Aron Xu wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Adam D. Barratt
> <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
> > On 2015-02-02 6:37, Aron Xu wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Adam D. Barratt
> >> <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, 2015-02-01 at 16:24 +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
> >>> +libxml2 (2.9.1+dfsg1-5) testing; urgency=medium
> >>> +
> >>> +  * Add pkg-config to B-D
> >>> +  * Use -O3 for normal builds
> >>>
> >>> Could you expand on the rationale for introducing those now?
> >>> Particularly as neither appears to be mentioned in the changelogs for
> >>> the uploads to unstable.
> >>
> >>
> >> These are directly picked from the 2.9.2 upload, which stuck for RC
> >> bug. At that time the change was quite big (major release) so those
> >> aren't documented in very detail but are in the git for quite some
> >> time.
> >
> >
> > Well, the changelog wasn't very detailed for 2.9.2 either. :-)
> >
> > I realise that the changes are in the unstable package (I checked that
> > first), I was more interested in the rationale, particularly for the
> > optimisation change.
> >
> 
> It's more about a changing attitude on speed/space trade of -O2 and
> -O3, and more and more apps are using -O3 for release build (e.g.
> CMake default). If release team believe that's not desired in Jessie,
> I can keep it out of the way.
> 
Anything that's not a minimal fix for a RC bug is not desired for jessie
at this stage.

Cheers,
Julien

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