Last Question for packaging the free vecmath library

Arnaud Vandyck avdyk@debian.org
Wed Feb 9 15:30:03 2005


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Wolfgang Baer <wbaer@gmx.de> wrote:=20

> Hi all,

Yo!

> the packaging of the free vecmath library is almost finished.
>
> I checked the package with lintian and get neither errors
> nor warnings - Juhu !

Yeah! ;-)

> If I check with linda i get the following error which I cannot
> explain:
>
> E: vecmath1.2; Uses cdbs and debhelper.mk, but the version is to old.

Don't know about this one. Maybe debhelper could be >=3D 4.2.30. You don't
need gjdoc if you build-dep on kaffe because kaffe should provide it
(damn! a new bug for the kaffe package!).

> Any suggestions ? Should I make versioned build-deps with the last
> available version for debhelper and cdbs, or just ignore this
> linda error ?

Ignore it? Any other comment?

> The next thing is the Depends stuff for the library. I verified that
> the library works with all free vm's (sablevm, kaffe, jamvm, gij-3.3
> and gij-3.4). I want that it is possible to install this package if
> any of the free vm's is already installed. Is the depends ok or should
> it be kaffe | jamvm | ... | java-runtime | java1-runtime | java2-runtime

java-runtime | any_free_vm

> If these questions are answered I am in the state to finish the
> packaging of my other libraries in the queue.

Good job!

Thanks for your work!

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