ffmpeg-debian debug packages, -fpic, unstripped libraries

[Reinhard Tartler]

Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com> writes:

> Ok then. Just for the record, I wanted to fix the FTBFS issue on i386 with -fPIC 
> enabled. That's the reason for the 'fpic-ftbfs-fix.patch' that you'll now see in 
> git.

As indicated in my previous mails, it is really pointless to try
that. Adding that to --extra-cflags just breaks ffmpeg at various
non-obvious places, so please just don't do it that way.

The proper *sic* way is to writeup a patch against the configure script
and/or the Makefile and get them accepted upstream. Then backport it to
the 0.5 branch.

> With the other patches, I was making changes so that lintian, and also scanelf 
> would produce no messages, thus indicating there is no non-PIC code in the 
> libraries.

Please don't try to fix lintian warnings. We are interested in fixing
bugs instead of making a checking tool happy. Really.

> I've succeeded with libpostproc (it just stops using MANGLE). The 
> others would require more work.

please explain what MANGLE does, why upstream has added it and what
changes if you leave it out.

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