pkg-kde-tools build type debian

[Harald Sitter]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez
<perezmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 May 2015 14:42:50 Harald Sitter wrote:
>> alohas
>>
>> so, today Martin Gräßlin and I worked out that pkg-kde-tools somehow
>> lost flags in the process of porting to kf5. in particular:
>>
>> ./datalib/kf5_flags:-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debian
>>
>> was originally backed by the kde4libs patch
>>
>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/11095296/
>>
>> which was not carried into kf5/ecm.
>>
>> Does anyone actually know why we have a custom build type instead of
>> simply using RelWithDebInfo which does *exactly* the same thing and
>> doesn't depend on some silly patch?
>
> I don't remember the details, but I think that comes from my first days in the
> team and the change was introduced by Modestas.
>
> Sune or Pino might remember.
>
> And it might have been due to RelWithDebInfo not being enough at that time,
> which doesn't means it is now, a lot has changed.
>
>> And in case no one remembers, does anyone have objections to simply
>> switch this to RelWithDebInfo moving forward?
>
> What are the code differences between both? I mean, to see if that hints us at
> something.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/11096221/