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Re: Packaging insight for debian




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

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