Re: [Xenomai] Packaging Xenomai-3

[Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo@alaxarxa.net>]

El Dilluns, 26 de gener de 2015, a les 23:26:16, Daniele Nicolodi va escriure:
> On 26/01/15 23:17, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> > AFAIK, looking the sources of the package, the names of the libraries are
> > different. And installing in my box I have:
> > 
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl-nss.so.4.3.0
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl-gnutls.so.4.3.0
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4.3.0
> > 
> > that comes from libcurl3-nss, libcurl3-gnutls and libcurl3. The last one
> > (OpenSSL flavour)
> 
> The different library names are created in the debian package, not by
> the upstream build system:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/curl.git/tree/debian/rules

Of course. I just said that to have co-installable it renaming the library 
it's an option.

> That is what Gilles wanted to point out: renaming the packaged library
> is done by the packaging machinery to suite the distribution, not upstream.

It's one option. The package sightly  modifies and patched upstream code. It's 
a complex package. It's not an easy job. It's rules file is long. And it's a 
sensible point (security), so I could understand that the maintainer wanted to 
offer all the variants that upstream provides. But I don't know the main reason 
for all this work.

> > I agree. I would like to find something that could benefit all the parts.
> > If you prefer not rename, no problem. I though that it could be a good
> > idea for all. Also I have to say that I don't think that it has sense to
> > implement it in packaging. This kind of modifications have to have a very
> > good reason to diverge from upstream.
> 
> See above.

I can see everything you want, but you should have a very good reason to make 
all this job. From my point of view if this kind of modifications are made by 
upstream (thinking the sources to do that), all is more easy. That's all. 

Of course that if could be done in packaging, but then the distro version is 
different than the others, so, from my point of view, you should have a very 
good reason to do that. If upstream made that change, all the distros follow.

Leopold

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