RFCs, Debian and Samba build dependencies

Love Hörnquist Åstrand lha at kth.se
Wed Dec 2 08:24:10 MST 2009


Hello Andrew,

> I think we should remove the build dependency on the RFCs. Currently
>> the RFCs are needed for a build because
>> source4/heimdal/lib/wind/gen-map.py is used to extract a character
>> table map from rfc3454.txt, which is then used as part of the source
>> of heimdal.
>> 
>> I think it may be better to commit the resulting lib/wind/map_table.c
>> and lib/wind/map_table.h into our tree, or to replace the routines
>> which use these maps with Samba specific maps (using our iconv code).
> 
> Please don't change the Heimdal code here.  We are down to a very small
> number of Heimdal patches, and I want to keep it that way, as it allows
> us to soon migrate to building against a system Heimdal. 

As I said last time I think this should be done as part of import of heimdal script. and will not have any patches per se toward heimdal.

You still use the old script I help improving last time around ?

>> Then we would no longer have a build dependency on this RFC, so we
>> could strip it from the tarball.
> 
> The irony is that this would break another Debian requirement to rebuild
> all generated files during the make process.

Ah, refined ironi.

Love




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