Package: src:pyabiword Severity: minor Tags: patch --
Hi, We need to coordinate transition for libwv library. Currently python-abiword depends on libwv-1.2-3 when experimental have a new libwv-1.2-4 release. To cut the long story short, upstream for 'wv' package (abisource) stopped publishing new releases to sourceforge so debian missed new versions since 2007. Now we have src:wv 1.2.9 to replace old src:wv 1.2.4 pyabiword have libwv-dev in Build-Depends only as workaround against missing build-deps in libabiword-2.(8|9)-dev (which had empty Depends for years until it was fixed by yours truly). In libwv-1.2-4 I fixed missing build-depends which makes workaround for missing build-dependencies (#656263, #656252) unnecessary in pyabiword. Because python-abiword suffers from overlinking, it inherit dependency on libwv-1.2-3 from libabiword, but needlessly links against libwv. I think the best would be if you could introduce --as-needed (see attached patch) to get rid of unnecessary depends, as python-abiword benefits from it. This will help the transition of libwv, because if pyabiword is built with --as-needed resulting binary package python-abiword do not depend on libwv at all. pyabiword builds perfectly with new libwv-1.2-4 (which is actually used only by libabiword). This transition will help to rebuild libabiword against current version of libwv. Thank you. Regards, Dmitry.
From f6d91313c9ab56196f0dd503bcebd554c442f39f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Smirnov <only...@member.fsf.org> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 18:44:01 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] introducing --as-needed to avoid needless linking --- debian/rules | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index f9ed126..21afa98 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/autoreconf.mk include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/python-autotools.mk -DEB_DH_AUTORECONF_ARGS = autoreconf -- -vfi -I. +DEB_DH_AUTORECONF_ARGS = autoreconf --as-needed -- -vfi -I. +LDFLAGS+= -Wl,--as-needed DEB_UPSTREAM_URL = http://www.abisource.com/downloads/pyabiword/$(DEB_UPSTREAM_VERSION) DEB_UPSTREAM_TARBALL_MD5 = 826ea3e4cdcdd11906ce8739d07e6c26 -- 1.7.8.3
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