[Pkg-silc-devel] Updating SILC Toolkit to 1.1 beta 4

[stesie at brokenpipe.de]

Hello,

On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 04:11:06PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:26:32AM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> > If anyone else would like to make other adjustments, double-checking,
> > dependency building, etc., just do it now. :)
> 
> I did found more time to work a bit more on the package.
> 
> It now builds quite nicely, without any lintian warnings.  The .diff.gz
> seems pretty clean to me, and debdiff did not show any regression in
> terms of files shipped.

in debian/rules we used to configure with
	
	--with-simdir=\$${libdir}/silc/${name}
    and
        --includedir=\$${prefix}/include/silc/${name}

however ${name} wasn't initialized.  You dropped the ${name} today.

Therefore the crypto modules are installed to /usr/lib/silc, not
/usr/lib/silc/libsilc-1.1-1 as it probably was (long) before.  At least
that's the impression I get from the debian/rules file.

I wonder whether we should reenable this behaviour again, to be able to
install different libsilc versions (not -dev) in parallel. 

Currently we're not able to, since these files would conflict; therefore
the somewhat uncommon conflict-entry in the control file for the library
itself (usually it's just for the -dev package, which conflicts because
of the *.so and maybe *.la files).

What about initializing name like this:
,-- 
| name=$(shell awk '/Package/ && !/dev/ { print $2 }' control)
`--

and modifying the pkg-config files accordingly?


cheers,
  stesie

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