OpenAL adoption

[Thierry Reding]

* Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:54:25AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
>  
> > I just added a manpage for the openal-config utility. There are also some
> > minor things I've been thinking about:
> 
> Thanks a lot for that.
> 
> > How about providing the pkg-config file provided with OpenAL instead of the
> > openal-config script? It would seem to me to be a wee bit cleaner than
> > shipping openal-config since it keeps down the number of executables. Maybe I
> > should have brought this up before writing the openal-config manpage... =)
> 
> I'm not used to pkg-config files. Can you point me to appropriate
> documentation/howtos how to use it?

I haven't done much with pkg-config files either, but it looks like
generating it from the openal.pc.in is a simple matter of running sed over it
with specific values for the variables. I could take a look at that if you
want.

> the openal-config script is needed by at least one reverse dependency of
> openal.

If it is needed then we should probably still ship it. Maybe shipping both
would be good. Does anyone know whether either method is preferred in Debian
in general?

> > Also the debian/copyright file says that `OpenAL is copyright (c) 2004 OpenAL
> > Development Team'. Does this maybe need some update? Maybe something along
> > the lines of `copyright (c) 2004-2006'?
> 
> I will look at it, thanks for pointer.
> 
> > Otherwise it looks good to me.
> 
> Gerfried Fuchs pointed to #345964. Before uploading, this needs to be
> addressed somehow.

This should (at least partially) be handled by packaging the latest release.
It would probably still break packages linked against previous releases of
openal, since it looks as if upstream still uses the same soname for the new
release.

However, I've never really packaged a library before, so I'm not completely
certain about all the problems involved.

Thierry

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