[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#701802: Please enable ICONV support

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Reinhard,

I have the same feeling like you that I do not really like the static
linking against a convenience copy of libiconv. We should rather
consider convincing upstream to enable proper dynamic linking.

Thanks for your sharing your investigations with us anyway

       Andreas.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:38:49PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Package: dcmtk
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> The current debian package does not include internationalization
> support. For this, it needs to be compiled against libiconv. In
> Debian, we do not ship seperate libiconv/libcharset libraries, because
> our glibc does already provide this. Unfortunately, the upstream build
> system does not seem to support this configuration and requires the
> use of an external libiconv.
> 
> Since iconv support is critical for my customer project, I have
> changed the package to compile statically against a libiconv tarball
> that I include with the source package. I'm not really satisfied with
> this solution. Nevertheless until a better solution is found in
> Debian, I would like to share my workaround with you.
> 
> Please see the attached rules files.
> 
> Cheers,
> Reinhard


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