From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Syd Polk To: "Eray 'exa' Ozkural" Cc: insight@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Packaging insight for debian Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 08:35:00 -0000 Message-id: <39E1E66C.FA3CC2B3@redhat.com> References: <20001008191124.A1578@borg.cs.bilkent.edu.tr> X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00036.html 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