-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello.
I'm the person who committed the diversion to dpkg-cros CVS, and I'm really sorry of what has happened. The problem was: - - many packages use 'dh_strip', that is hardcoded to call 'strip'; - - on many systems, 'strip' binary that is in path by default used to corrupt non-native binaries (AFAIK this is fixed in recent binutils, but still strip program can't strip binaries for architectures it doesn't recognize); - - situation that is (was?) there for ages is that toolchain/debhelper maintainers ask embedded developers to use binutils-multiarch, and embedded developers don't like this idea for different reasons. So my idea was to implement some wrapper that will force dh_strip to use correct strip binary, and to divert dh_strip with this wrapper. At that time, I wrote a posting to -devel asking about diversion, as policy says. I have not found in policy any instructions about CCing to anybody; probably I could guess I should, but I didn't. A good lesson for me ... Anyway, there was not much interest in my posting on -devel, so I thought people don't care. And it looked naturally - after all, dpkg-cross is a tool for embedded developers; most people don't need it. So I decided that it's ok to divert. However, I have not implemented the wrapper fast enough (we all work on Debian when we have time to, don't we?), and Raphael came with his solution. I didn't like it (mostly because copying a script from other package sooner or later causes 'out-of-sync' problems), but I thought it's better that nothing, so I committed it. Anyway, the current solution is far from being perfect from technical point of view. For example, dh_strip is not the only way package build scripts use to call strip (strip may be called manually, or via 'install -s', or in some other way). So we should ensure that 'strip' in path will always handle the binaries it is called for. I propose solution (in the situation that many people don't like binutils-multiarch) to write a script that will detect correct strip program to run and then run it (probably using different strip programs for different args), call this script 'strip' and ensure that it is in PATH before /usr/bin. I'm going to implement this as soon as I have time to, and remove the diversion in question. To avoid other diversions, I'll put the script somewhere under /usr/share/dpkg-cross/, and make dpkg-buildpackage wrapper to add the script location to the beginning of PATH. I hope this solution will satisfy everybody envolved. Nikita -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBIQTQsTbPknTfAB4RArvcAKCIeUouRNTtA192VUs88NHtr8ofrQCfdl+/ 3EVWh9Z4LI7HqHDVqUzUOko= =cWP8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
