Bug#528080: ffmpeg-debian: ffmpeg still has shlib-with-non-pic-code lintian errors

[Reinhard Tartler]

Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com> writes:

> ffmpeg still gets these 'shlib-with-non-pic-code' lintian errors, although the
> package is build with '-fPIC -DPIC' as required by policy.

policy does not require it, but rather strongly recommends it. In ffmpeg
there is a good argument for *not* following that suggestion.

> The patch I've committed to git reduced the amount of these errors from 14 to 6.
> More work needs to be done to find the remaining places which causes these
> TEXTRELs to appear in the resulting binaries. Any help is welcome.

What problem are you trying to fix? Please revert that change, we need
further discussion on that.

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