[Pkg-xen-devel] Extraneous kruft [signed]

[Ralph Passgang]

Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 21:34 schrieb Jeremy T. Bouse [c]:
>     Looking through the build files I'm wondering if we can't do some
> clean-up and remove extraneous kruft before we release. Like the
> config.dbs and the README.build that talks about the config.dbs. From
> looking through the build setup I don't see either file actually
> critically needed and looks like Ralph may have come to a similar
> conclusion by the comments added to the README.build file.

*ack* both files are old and not needed anymore.

>     Also looking at the various *.install files I think a lil bit of
> shuffling of which package contains what might be in order. I notice
> that the libxen-dev simply has the header files and the COPYING doc file
> (which appears to be put in the wrong location). While libxen3.0 has all
> the static (*.a) and dynamic (*.so*) libraries.
>
>     Typically as I've seen done in a great many packages is that the .a
> static libraries and the .so dynamic libraries go in the -dev package
> while the .so.<version> and .so.<full-version> dynamic libraries make it
> in the actual library package. This is the case with libfwbuilder that I
> maintain as well as I've seen in X11, ncurses and many others. I think
> for consistency and the fact the .a and .so libraries are only needed
> for development we should go ahead and change this.

*ack* again...

>     As I've said I want to see this work by consensus rather than
> dictatorship I'd like some input before I commit these changes. I think
> we're getting a good jump on things and we should with any luck have
> some packaging to test soon. I've got a 64bit AMD waiting on xen-3.0 so
> I can move my mail and web server from VMWare.

I woul
>
>     Regards,
>     Jeremy
>
>
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