[Pkg-clamav-devel] tommath

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 01:12:44AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
Hi Andreas,

> >>As libtommath seems to be dead upstream (last release in 2011, homepage
> >>vanished), I'm not sure reverting this makes much sense.
> >
> >I see but tomsfastmath isn't that much better, is it?
> 
> Not really. It even has the same homepage (or rather has not anymore).
> 
> >Its last release
> >is more recent however. The git tree of of tommath [0] has a few changes
> >from a fow months ago.
> 
> I wonder, why there hasn't been any new release despite the activity in the
> repository (for both tommath and tomsfastmath).

So I managed to gather some intelligence here. The owner of the homepage (I
guess Tom) has been informed about the situation with the homepage. There are
also rumors that there should be a new release for both (tom and fasttom)
around christmas.

> >so it supposed to do the same thing but a little faster. Sounds like
> >something for everyone. Would it make a candidate for packaging then?
> >There a few copies of it in the tree [2].
> 
> Yes, packaging that would make sense. Even more so, if there is a chance of
> new upstream releases in the future.

Good. But now during freeze might be hard to get new packages accepted,

> >>We probably should just remove '--with-system-tommath' (and
> >>'--without-included-ltdl', which is the default) from debian/rules.
> >
> >if we use the embedded ltdl then yes, please :)
> 
> We don't use the embedded ltdl, but clamav uses the system version on its
> own, unless configured with --with-included-ltdl.

understood

> Best regards,
> Andreas
> 

Sebastian