On Tue, 9 Aug 2016, Steve Langasek wrote: > Package: gettext > Version: 0.19.8.1-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > User: [email protected] > Usertags: origin-ubuntu yakkety ubuntu-patch > > Hi Santiago, > > In Ubuntu, we are carrying a patch to gettext to make it cross-buildable. > This seems a worthwhile feature to include in Debian also, given gettext's > status as a base package. Please find attached a patch to debian/rules > which should enable this.
Thanks for the patch. It is indeed a worthwhile feature. The only problem is that I have just dropped the use of strip in favour of dh_strip. Now you propose to use strip again, which I see as a step backwards. I see a comment saying this: FIXME: libtool seems to call strip directly but I fail to see how this makes necessary to define a STRIP variable which is not used anywhere. Maybe the patch was adapted from a previous gettext version? (when I didn't use debhelper at all). Instead of applying this patch as is, I am thinking about debhelperizing debian/rules even more. Simple question: Does current "hello" cross-build ok? (It has a minimal dh-style debian/rules). If yes, maybe we could avoid all this. Thanks.
