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Re: Packaging insight for debian
- To: "Eray 'exa' Ozkural" <erayo at cs dot bilkent dot edu dot tr>
- Subject: Re: Packaging insight for debian
- From: Syd Polk <spolk at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 08:38:20 -0700
- CC: insight at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20001008191124.A1578@borg.cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
Eray 'exa' Ozkural wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been working on Debian packages for insight-5.0, and so
> far I've ported the build system to use the debian tcl/tk8.3
> packages and stripped insight accordingly.
Factoring out the internal versions of tcl/tk is not a good idea. We have local
changes to these which could cause random failures, particularly when running
the test suite.
> I've however been recommended to ask upstream maintainers'
> opinions which I'm doing now since I have something working. :)
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1) Should I follow up on development releases or "point" releases?
> 2) There seem to be some discrepancies between the libgui that
> sourcenav-4.5.2 uses and the one in insight-5.0. I was thinking
> of making libgui into a separate package. What do you recommend?
Shipping the two versions. The next version of SN will have the same version as
Insight, and will have been tested correctly.
> A somewhat current build for woody is available at
> http://pccluster.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~exa/debian/
>
> which should be aptable as
>
> deb http://pccluster.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~exa/debian/ .
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Eray (exa) Ozkural
> Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
> e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
> www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo