[maemo-developers] Optification in MADDE, again

[From: Martin Storsjö]

Hi,

It seems I'm late to the discussion on optification in MADDE... In the 
earlier discussion, I saw this quote:

> You cannot use that with MADDE, because maemo-optify* commands use
> internally some dpkg* command options that are not implemented by MADDE.

When grepping through the source of maemo-optify 0.2.1, I see no such 
calls at all, anyone care to clarify this?


I tried adding the maemo-optify scripts outside of MADDE, in my path (on 
OS X), and it seems to work just fine, but the rest of the environment 
adds some complications.

dh_fixperms, which write the list of files for tarlisted, doesn't 
recognize symlinks at all, but this can be fixed with the attached patch. 
This would be an issue also if doing manual optification and using 
symlinks, I think?

The final problem, though, is that of the order of commands in 
debian/rules, which, for me, initially looked like this:

        dh_strip
        dh_compress
        dh_fixperms
#       dh_perl
#       dh_makeshlibs
        dh_installdeb
        dh_shlibdeps
        dh_gencontrol
        dh_md5sums
        maemo-optify
        dh_builddeb

dh_fixperms is called a few steps before maemo-optify, so it creates a 
.tarlist that references files as they are at that point, but maemo-optify 
changes them later on. maemo-optify cannot be called before dh_installdeb, 
though. Moving dh_fixperms down to below maemo-optify does seem to work, 
although I'm not sure if that's an acceptable change in general.

// Martin
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