Bug#406992: ITP: VirtualBox -- x86 virtualization solution
Frank Mehnert wrote:
> I would be appreciated if we could solve the remaining problems together.
sure.
> - still no copyright file, we will provide one
good.
> - no manpages
> - unstrippped binary objects: We cannot change this because we need to load
> these modules at runtime (similar as XFree86 did before they switched
> to .so modules)
> - our .so libs have no major/minor. Not sure if we should really provide one
> but this induces some lintian warnings
not so much of a problem for a first upload, can be fixed later.
> - How to generate the SVN as part of the version? I would like to do it like
> Torsten did it with his kBuild package
nope; for release software, the proper version scheme is e.g. 1.4.0-1,
1.4.0-2 etc.; and for svn snapshots it would be
1.4.0+${date}.${svn_revision}-1 (or 1.4.0+${date}-1 for short).
> - In case you are asking: the lintian overrides for PIC code in our shared
> libs are necessary, currently no way to build them as PIC.
not so much of a problem for a first upload, can be fixed later.
> - the package still compiles the kernel module during install, I assume this
> should be removed (and the module stuff in preinst/postinst as well)
don't worry about the kernel module, i'll take care about that.
i'm in holidays until friday evening. if you fix the copyright and
license stuff until then, i can prepare an upload to unstable at
saturday morning.
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