On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 11:31 +0200, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:12:32 +0000 > Ian Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 18:55 +0200, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > > We might want to push sunxi-tools into more Linux distributions than > > > just Debian and Fedora. And the maintainers of these distributions > > > could be not very much impressed with the current quality of the > > > sunxi-tools build process :) > > > > At least from my PoV as the Debian maintainer it's not so bad, mostly > > because there isn't very much of it and it's pretty simple/basic. > > OK, thanks. So, I guess, this is one more vote in favour of keeping > the existing makefile.
FWIW I'm not opposed to a change to use autotools or whatever, I just wanted to say don't do it just for my benefit or whatever. > > The biggest issue from the Debian PoV is the binaries contained in the > > release -- Debian cannot (or does not want to) ship any binary which is > > not rebuilt as part of the package build, so I can't just use them. > > > > Rebuilding those binaries is hard because sadly cross-compilers are > > still a WIP in Debian and ensuring that an Arch:all package is built on > > a specific architecture (as someone in this thread suggested) is not > > easily achieved. I could just do each upload containing armhf binaries > > instead of relying on the buildd network, but that's just a workaround > > and in any case I prefer to do source only uploads where possible. > > The 'fel' tool now contains some bits of ARM assembly, which are > converted into annotated C arrays. This may be stepping into a gray > area. Yes. Pragmatically given the way it's presented with the "source" in comments right alongside I'd be fairly bullish about it being ok. Ultimately with Jessie being frozen the new version of the fel tool has to be targeting Stretch (and jessie-backports once it opens) and if there are no cross-compilers available by then I'd be quite surprised/cross. > What is the Debian policy regarding the autogenerated 'configure' > files? These days it is recommended best practice to regenerate them as part of the package build and there are helper tools to do so (dh_autoconf et al). Ian. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
