[maemo-developers] maemo-optify, autobuilder & /opt

[From: Ed Bartosh]

2009/10/29 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com>:
> ext Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> writes:
>
>> I suggest the header is XS-Maemo-Optify, and has the following values:
>>
>>   none:   no optification should be done, or considered, by the autobuilder.
>>   manual: the application author will do optification manually. If the
>>           package contains no entries under /opt it would be considered a
>>           build failure.
>>   auto:   maemo-optify would be run if certain heuristics were met (e.g.
>>           no entries in /opt, no Python dependency)
>>   force:  maemo-optify would always be run
>
> Thanks for the initiative, Andrew!
>
> I have put maemo-optify 0.2 into extras-devel with the following
> changes, motivated by your proposal:
>
>  * Added --auto option to maemo-optify-deb which will read debian/optify
>    and debian/files and does the right thing.
>
>  * Added maemo-optify-buildpackage, which invokes maemo-optify-deb in
>    auto mode.
>
> More details in the README here:
>
>    http://maemo.gitorious.org/maemo-af/maemo-optify/blobs/master/README
>
> Thus, only "none" and "auto" are really implemented right now, and the
> mode is read from debian/optify instead of from debian/control.
>
> (Proper man pages are still missing.)
>
> Thus, the next step is to make sure that maemo-optify is installed in
> the build environment and to use maemo-optify-buildpackage instead of
> dpkg-buildpackage.  (Or make the equivalent changes to dpkg-buildpackage
> itself, which are quite small.)
>
There are two ways to have maemo-optify in build environment - to add
it to the rootstrap and to put it into Build-Depends.
As I understood we don't want to ask developers to put it into
Build-Depends, so rootstrap should be changed.
I already hacked it one time when I removed /opt from there. I can do
it again, but I don't want to fork SDK rootstrap, so it would
be nice to somehow agree with SDK team to include these changes into
the next release.

I like the idea of making equivalent changes to dpkg-buildpackage. Why
we should introduce new tool?

-- 
BR,
Ed