Bug#602316: Library Bundling

[mickael.brangeon@infomaniak.com]

Hi Clint,

We would make a debian package starting if possible from the sources
used to build the Google binaries at LINK, and probably raise it upstream. 
Do you still have the debian sources somewhere please?

Best Regards


On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 04:06:16PM -0800, Clint Byrum wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 12:09 -0500, Craig Andrews wrote:
> > One of the problems with mod_pagespeed is that it bundles a bunch of
> > libraries (such as zlib and libpng) and included them bundled in the
> > Debian package would be a policy violation. I created an issue in
> > mod_pagespeed's bug tracker requesting that they at least optionally
> > unbundle libraries:
> > https://code.google.com/p/modpagespeed/issues/detail?id=226
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thanks Craig. IIRC, Google sees things differently for their own
> concerns. They've found that for a single binary product, they can
> provide better support given their own assembly of dependencies rather
> than a distribution set of dependencies.
> 
> Still, this can be resolved by simply replacing the expected bundled
> libraries with system libraries during the build. A few things that are
> embedded need to be packaged as well, but that will be part of the
> effort.
> 
> I haven't had much time to spend on mod_pagespeed since filing the ITP,
> but I still want to resolve the *extremely* difficult bundling and build
> issues and get it available with all the usual assurances one can expect
> from a Debian package.
> 
> 
> 

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