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

[Patrick Huck]

Hi Andreas,

With Alioth being back up again, I requested membership in the Debian Science Team but am still waiting for a reply. Meanwhile, I got 'ckon' compiled on a amd64 debian box (testing release) with Build-Depends set to libboost-all-dev [1] and up-to-date m4 macros for autoconf [2]. Please find the newest package release on github [3]. For i386, testing is underway on a ubuntu saucy box.
I'm very glad to hear that you'd be willing to sponsor my package. I hope I can commit to the Debian Science Repository soon ...

Thanks much,
Patrick

[1] https://github.com/tschaume/ckon-deb-pkg/blob/master/debian/control
[2] https://github.com/tschaume/ckon-deb-pkg/commit/06c52f5
[3] https://github.com/tschaume/ckon-deb-pkg/releases/tag/debian%2F0.6.4-1
> 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