Package: x264 Version: 2:0.116.2042+git178455c-1 Severity: wishlist Bug forwarded from https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/919509
Seems that according to Policy ยง10.2, we need to document why we are not building the shared library with -fPIC in the file README.Debian and get consensus on that on the debian-devel mailing list. The reason is that x264 uses a lot of hand written assembler, and upstream takes care to use non-pic code only on architectures that support this. Btw, the same applies to the libav* packages. Cheers, Reinhard _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
