[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#693267: gnucap: please provide -dev package

[Felix Salfelder]

Package: gnucap
Version: 1:0.36~20091207-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

deep inside, gnucap provides support to load external modules. compiling
modules requires development headers, which should be available in a
gnucap-dev package, to expose the functionality to a debian user.

most importantly, not having headers makes it impossible to package
additional modules (see for example http://www.gnucap.org/devel for
bsim, and several *spice models).

upstream gnucap does neither provide header installation, nor support
for out-of-tree module compilation, nor a default location to look for
installed modules. the repository at
git://tool.em.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/git/gnucap_deb
contains quilt patches on top of the current gnucap package. these
implement the most important bits in a canonical way.

regards
felix

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnucap depends on:
ii  libc6         2.13-35
ii  libgcc1       1:4.7.1-7
ii  libreadline6  6.2-8
ii  libstdc++6    4.7.1-7

gnucap recommends no packages.

gnucap suggests no packages.

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