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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