Re: Official debian paxkages

[Flavio Stanchina <flavio at stanchina dot net>]

Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > I just discovered that an ITP for fglrx has been filed already: [...]
> You shouldn't do that but contact the submitter of the ITP and/or follow
> up to it.

OK, I'll do that.

> > * Checking with lintian: there are some errors caused by the binaries 
> > ("shlib-with-non-pic-code", "unstripped-binary-or-object"), but we can't 
> > fix them AFAIK as we don't have the sources; 
> That's true for the former but not for the latter one. Just use
> dh_strip, you may have to exclude some binaries though, [...]

That's fine, I'll try. Just one question, is there a way to check if
stripped libraries still work, short of installing them?

> I basically agree, just one minor comment: There's no reason to believe
> that the driver for X.org 6.8 wouldn't work with any future 6.8.x
> releases.

You mean you think I should relax the match for version '6.8.[12]' and make
it '6.8.[0-9]' or even '6.8.[0-9]*' ? I agree in part, but I thought it's
better to disallow building on different X.Org versions until someone
actually checked that it works fine and explicitly allows it.

In fact, now that I think about it, when I build the binary package I set
the dependency on xserver-xorg to >= 6.8.0 and << 6.8.99; either the
dependency or the matching needs to be changed.

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Ciao, Flavio