[maemo-developers] Optification in MADDE, again

[From: Ville M. Vainio]

Please review these:

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10826 (use the attached template)

http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/How_to_make_optification_with_MADDE

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st> wrote:
> 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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