[Pkg-gnutls-maint] libgcrypt11

[James Westby]

Hi Andreas,

libgcrpyt11 is mentioned in 
http://people.debian.org/~madcoder/policy_7.6_violation.txt

I saw that you followed up to
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/06/msg00684.html

What does this mean for the package? The lines from debian/control are 

Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 4.1.0), docbook-utils, tetex-bin,
docbook-to-man, jade, texinfo (>= 4.6-1), cdbs, texi2html (>= 1.76-1),
libgpg-error-dev, binutils, autotools-dev

Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 4.1.0), docbook-utils, tetex-bin,
docbook-to-man, jade, texinfo (>= 4.6-1), cdbs, texi2html

So, Build-Depends contains all of the packages of B-D-I, but with a
stronger restriction on texi2html. 

My reading of this is that the B-D-I field can just be dropped from the
package, as it doesn't specify any extra packages, or a more restrictive
set. Have I got this correct? 

As for the rest of the packaging I cannot understand most off the
diff.gz from the last version, it seems to make lots of changes to the
source, many of which I cannot see the point of. For instance it
includes whole files that were removed upstream a couple of years ago.
The current svn version leaves out most of the changes, and seem to
build the same, but I'm not positive. 

In the other packages you have used --enable-ld-version-script instead
of hacking configure.in, what are the hacks that were being used? I'm
not sure if those are the changes that are seen here. 

James

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