On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 16:07:36 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> 2015-05-06 15:22 GMT+03:00 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>:
> > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:40:51 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> >> Btw, I notice that XSF is still using Debhelper compatibility 8. Is
> >> there any particular reason for foregoing compatibility 9?
> >>
> > Depends on the package. I've been updating a few to debhelper compat 9
> > recently. For drivers however, at least when using dh_auto_configure,
> > that requires overriding its multiarch libdir setting to keep things
> > under /usr/lib/xorg/modules. But there's no specific reason to avoid
> > bumping to 9 AFAIK.
>
> The consequences of compatibility level 9 (automatically enforced
> multiarch libdir) on drivers is precisely what I'm worried about. If
> there is a standardized debian/rules stanza for overriding this for X
> drivers, I would love to hear about it.
>
I've been using this:
override_dh_auto_configure:
dh_auto_configure -- \
--disable-silent-rules \
--libdir=\$${exec_prefix}/lib
See e.g.
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-trident.git/commit/?id=713c309b94fa2084dee04def78924fbc7563d011
Cheers,
Julien
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