Bug#733910: ITP: ckon -- automatic build tool for ROOT analyses

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Patrick,

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:32:11PM -0800, Patrick Huck wrote:
> @Andreas: yes, I think working on the ckon package within the Debian
> Science team would make the most sense. Thank you for the
> suggestion. I'm forwarding the ITP to the debian-science-maintainers
> list, too.

Fine.
 
> I've been following the debian science policy [1] to start packaging
> ckon. Please find the binary packages (and the git-buildpackage
> repository) on github [2]. Unfortunately, I couldn't request
> membership in the Debian Science Team and create a package
> repository on git.debian.org due to alioth.debian.org throwing the
> error message "Alioth Could Not Connect to Database:". I tried all
> day to access Alioth after creating an account but no success.

I can confirm that this problem seems to exist since about 10 hours.  I
hope it will be solved quickly.  Once this is done I'd offer to sponsor
your package in case nobody else might step in according to my
Sponsering of Blends effort
    https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends/SoB

> Also, I compiled the package on a fresh ubuntu precise32 vagrant
> box. However, ckon depends on boost1.50 which is not part of the
> ubuntu precise release. Hence, I used
> libboost1.50-all-dev from ppa:brainpower/testing [3] and added it to
> Build-Depends [4]. The name might have to be changed for an
> appropriate debian release.

I think you should rather Build-Depends from libboost-all-dev which
would simplify transitions.

Thanks for your work on this package

      Andreas.
 
> [1] http://debian-science.alioth.debian.org/debian-science-policy.html
> [2] https://github.com/tschaume/ckon-deb-pkg/releases
> [3] https://launchpad.net/~brainpower/+archive/testing
> [4] https://github.com/tschaume/ckon-deb-pkg/blob/master/debian/control

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