On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Adam D. Barratt <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote: > On 2015-02-02 6:37, Aron Xu wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Adam D. Barratt >> <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote: >>> >>> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo >>> >>> On Sun, 2015-02-01 at 16:24 +0800, Aron Xu wrote: >>> +libxml2 (2.9.1+dfsg1-5) testing; urgency=medium >>> + >>> + * Add pkg-config to B-D >>> + * Use -O3 for normal builds >>> >>> Could you expand on the rationale for introducing those now? >>> Particularly as neither appears to be mentioned in the changelogs for >>> the uploads to unstable. >> >> >> These are directly picked from the 2.9.2 upload, which stuck for RC >> bug. At that time the change was quite big (major release) so those >> aren't documented in very detail but are in the git for quite some >> time. > > > Well, the changelog wasn't very detailed for 2.9.2 either. :-) > > I realise that the changes are in the unstable package (I checked that > first), I was more interested in the rationale, particularly for the > optimisation change. >
It's more about a changing attitude on speed/space trade of -O2 and -O3, and more and more apps are using -O3 for release build (e.g. CMake default). If release team believe that's not desired in Jessie, I can keep it out of the way. Regards, Aron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
