Bug#1015968: RFS: xbase64/3.1.2-14 -- xbase compatible C++ class library

[Stephen Dennis <brazilofmux@gmail.com>]

I've submitted a second upload to mentors that:

1. I believe will address libmux.so being used before it is built. I've tried to reproduce a race condition with make -j12, but I am unsuccessful. For me, the build always succeeds.

2. I hope the above fix prevents any random reference to an external libmux or random and unintended reference to libxbase64 or .la files.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 9:18 PM Stephen Dennis <brazilofmux@gmail.com> wrote:

Could it be a naming collision between the private libmux and an official libmux package?

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 9:13 PM Stephen Dennis <brazilofmux@gmail.com> wrote:

How can I reproduce what you are seeing? The package doesn't use libtool, and no .la files are produced or included. There should be no reference to libxbase64. I'm not even sure what that is.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 8:30 PM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 04:53:52PM +0200, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote:
>    Package name    : xbase64
>    Version         : 3.1.2-14

>  xbase64 (3.1.2-14) unstable; urgency=medium
>  .
>    * Migrate to debhelper-compat 13:
>      - debian/control: Add debhelper-compat (= 13).
>      - Remove debian/compat.
>      - Add usr/bin/xbase64-config into new debian/not-installed.
>      - Add usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libxbase64.la to
>          debian/libxbase64-bin.install.
>    * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.6.1.0 (No changes needed).
>    * debian/copyright:
>      - Add year 2022 to myself.
>    * Disable Link time optimization (Closes: #1015707):
>      - debian/rules: Add optimize=-lto to DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS.
>    * debian/control: Add Rules-Requires-Root: no.

Is there a reason you include the .la file?  From my experience it being
needed for anything suggests severe borkage, and the Policy concurs:

# [...] these files normally should not be included in the Debian package,
# since the information they include is not necessary to link with the
# shared library on Debian and can add unnecessary additional dependencies
# to other programs or libraries.

It then says:

# If the ".la" must be included, it should be included in the
# development ("-dev") package, unless the library will be loaded by
# "libtool"’s "libltdl" library. If it is intended for use with
# "libltdl", the ".la" files must go in the run-time library package.

libxbase64-bin is neither.


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