Hi Sjors! On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 13:30:56 +0200, Sjors Gielen wrote: > The reason I'm asking is because of the Fink package manager for > Mac OS X, which uses dpkg and apt extensively. We're in the process > of upgrading from the ancient dpkg 1.10 to 1.15.
Ah nice, I've looked at the changes done to dpkg in Fink at some point in the past, and some seemed a bit hackish, or stuff that should be fixed somewhere else or in a different way. I'd be glad to try to help reduce the delta you carry on dpkg. > But there's one piece missing: Mac OS X has its own solution for the > linking of libraries, which conflicts with libtool's "dependency_libs" > in all .la files (I don't completely know the internals). This has > always been solved by modifying all .la files that packages install > and clearing the dependency_libs statement before actually installing > the .la files. We can't simply patch libtool either, because it's > installed on the system, not by Fink itself. In Debian what's being done is clear out the dependency_libs variable at package creation time. No need to delegate that step to all installing systems, just doing it once at build time seems cleaner and more efficient. <http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval> > What do you think about the feature with this background? :) I think this is the wrong approach, and you should reuse what Debian packagers are doing instead. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
