[Debian-med-packaging] r7427 - trunk/packages/velvet/trunk/debian

Andreas Tille andreas at an3as.eu
Fri Aug 12 06:09:42 UTC 2011


Hi Charles,

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 07:53:48AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> note that the switch from -O2 to -O3 is often a symptom that no Debian-specific
> compiler flags are passed anymore, in particular -O2 -g and -Wall.  Our Policy
> mandates in its section 10.1 that they ‘should’ be used.
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-binaries

Is there any rationale behind this `should' if we are considering that
dh is just doing "the right thing"(tm)?

Additional question:  I somehow tend to keep on repackaging velvet to avoid
the copyright hell of zlib.  I'm fine with leaving MetaVelvet as is.  What
do you think?

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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