X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/f6bcfd974ef26faf6f91a62cac09827e09463fd1..226de48a85fdfc8ada9c5fa942f94eecc7dc7f8c:/debian/README.Debian

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
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+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -1,18 +1,71 @@
-wxwindows for Debian
+wxwidgets for Debian
 ----------------------
 
-The following packages are built from the wxWindows CVS source.
+The following packages are built from the wxWidgets CVS source.
 
-libwxbase		wxBase runtime shared libraries
-libwxbase-dev		extra files and static libs for building wxBase apps
-libwxgtk		wxGTK runtime shared libraries
-libwxgtk-dev		extra files and static libs for building wxGTK apps
-libwxgtk-python		Python binding to wxGTK
-wxwin-contrib		wxWin contrib runtime shared libs (built with wxGTK)
-wxwin-contrib-dev	extra files and static contrib libs for building apps
-wxwin-headers		common header files for building wxWindows apps
-wxwin-doc		HTML version of the wxWindows manual
-wxwin-examples		wxWindows and wxPython demos and samples (source)
+libwxgtk		wxGTK runtime shared libraries, including selected
+			contrib libs.
+libwxgtk-dev		extra files required for building wxGTK apps
+libwxgtk-dbg		wxGTK libraries built with -g and __WXDEBUG__
+
+libwxgtk-python		Python binding to wxGTK  (from 2.2.3 onward, this
+			obsoletes the libwxgtk-python-contrib package as
+			all python modules are built into a single monolith)
+
+wx-headers		common header files for building wxWidgets apps
+wx-doc			HTML version of the wxWidgets manual
+wx-examples		wxWidgets and wxPython demos and samples (source)
+wx-i18n			message catalogs for native language support
+
+
+	Note that static libraries are no longer supplied in these
+	packages.  Please read, or have understood:
+	http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html
+	among others before reporting this as a bug.
+
+	The following binaries can be built from the source package
+	with the mingw32 cross compiler, but are not currently
+	distributed by Debian.  If you feel that should change,
+	please file a bug against the wxwidgets2.6 package, or
+	append your views to a report already there if you're not
+	the first to do so.
+
+	[ you can check the current state of affairs at:
+	  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=wxwidgets2.6 ]
+
+	Oh and, please do *not* file bug reports for these packages
+	to the Debian bts.  But do feel free to email me personally
+	if you find problems and/or have patches to fix them.
+
+libwxmsw-dev		mingw32-cross wxMSW libs.
+libwxmsw-dbg		mingw32-cross wxMSW (debug) libs.
+wx-headers-msw		extra headers needed for wxMSW.
+
+	You can build these extra packages using the binary-cross target
+	in debian/rules.
+
+
+	It is also possible to build a libwxgtk-dbg-python package.
+	There are some limitations (like this package cannot be installed
+	concurrently with the release version), but some developers may
+	find such a thing useful in any case.  It will transparently
+	replace the release package for installed apps that depend on the
+	release package, but should NEVER be used when preparing packages
+	for upload.  This package may be created from the source using the
+	binary-dbg-py target in debian/rules.  (note that doing this will
+	also destroy any release build that exists in the same tree, they
+	cannot coexist there either yet)
+
+
+	Finally, because all of these packages can take quite some time to
+	build, the source package supports the use of distcc.  The package
+	builds will automatically parallelise to suit the number of hosts
+	you have listed in DISTCC_HOSTS.  This will work for both native
+	and cross builds of the c++ libraries, if you have the relevant
+	compilers on all your build hosts.  wxPython builds cannot be
+	parallelised at this stage and will run serially regardless of
+	your configuration.
 
 
  -- Ron Lee <ron@debian.org>, Sun, 13 Feb 2000 18:40:00 +1030
+