[Pkg-gridengine-devel] Bug#714661: Bug#714661: gridengine and debian

[Dave Love]

Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> writes:

> [Resending to the bts as my mail to
> pkg-gridengine-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org is not being handled and I
> don't like waiting so long.]
>
> Hi
>
> [Please keep me in CC in replies, I am not subscribed to the list]
>
> As I am trying to get rid of lesstif2 in Debian [LESSTIF], I was looking
> into doing an NMU on bug 714661 [MOTIF], which requests replacement with
> motif. Normally, this would have been a rather trivial change which has
> been done in Ubuntu already [UBUNTU]. However, in Debian it is blocked
> by bug 701446 [FTBFS]. Luckily that bug points to a patch, great. Then I
> noticed the other serious bug 709852 [POSTINST] and as it is simple I
> could fix that too. Furthermore I noticed the request for help [HELP].

My current version built fine on stable and unstable (I think) when I
last tried (against openmotif).  It just requires me to make another
effort to get the result uploaded, and I'm afraid I've been lacking
time/enthusiasm.  I'd have to look up where the official Debian repo is,
but my current version of the packaging to merge in is at
http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/darcs/gridengine.debian/ (with a .git
sub-directory).  Actually, it _would_ be current if I pushed changes for
the latest SGE release.  I'll do so when I get a chance.

Uploading help might be useful, thanks.  I'll try to find some time to
look at it again.  (There are some serious problems with the current
packaging, including security issues, apart from library dependencies.)