Bug#657019: Please document why the package includes non-PIC code

[Reinhard Tartler]

Package: x264
Version: 2:0.116.2042+git178455c-1
Severity: wishlist

Bug forwarded from https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/919509

Seems that according to Policy §10.2, we need to document why we are not
building the shared library with -fPIC in the file README.Debian and get
consensus on that on the debian-devel mailing list.

The reason is that x264 uses a lot of hand written assembler, and
upstream takes care to use non-pic code only on architectures that
support this.

Btw, the same applies to the libav* packages.

Cheers,
Reinhard