On Thu, 2026-05-07 at 11:20 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 7 May 2026 at 10:04, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > > On 7 May 2026 at 15:27, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > On Thu, 2026-05-07 at 08:18 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > > Benjamin, > > > > > > > > Damn. I dropped the ball here, and we ended up hot-fixing just the sed > > > > split-char issue. I just reached out again to upstream to address the > > > > actual > > > > issue of 'leaking' --package-metadata. > > > > > > Fixing leaking the --package-metadata can be done by setting the LDFLAGS > > > for the pkgconfig file. > > > https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-base/-/merge_requests/4 will be enough > > > for that. > > > > In the narrow sense, sure. In the larger sense other distro builds needs a > > fix too so I am again talking to upstream about splitting the LIBS variable. > > Heard from upstream, they did take the patch from you that I forwarded; the > issue really seems to be that I did not set LIBR_LDFLAGS to 'nothing' in > debian/rules. > > Do we care about other distro / other uses figuring out to set LIBR_LDFLAGS > that way? So far it really only seems to matter for 26.04 (and we will get a > new binary to CRAN 'shortly').
It would be useful to spread the information to the other distributions. Probably most of them want to set LIBR_LDFLAGS to 'nothing'. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
