From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dirk Eddelbuettel" To: Brian Gough , "Dirk Eddelbuettel" , gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: GNU Scientific Library (GSL) 0.8 is released Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:20:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 2001/msg00181.html > Dirk Eddelbuettel writes: > > > * Packages for Debian GNU/Linux: libgsl0, libgsl0-dev, gsl-ref-psdoc > > > > Please add the actual links for these > > > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gsl/ > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gsl-ref-psdoc/ > > > > Ok, but shouldn't they install it using apt-get or dselect? Sure, that works as well, is generally speaking a lot easier and doesn't require the links. But there are situations where you just want to grab just the .orig.tar.gz, .dsc and .diff.gz to recompile them locally (e.g. when the build daemons have not yet caught up with a particular non-i386 architecture, or when you want to recompile it for an older Debian release such 2.2 which only contains gsl 0.5 if memory serves), or when you want to manually grab the .deb (e.g. when you favourite apt-get'able mirror is behind, or when you want to manually open the .deb via ar(1) and tar(1)). There is nothing to hide, so why not add the links? -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all signatures are totally worthless.