RFS: eigen3

[Anton Gladky]

Ok, thanks for suggestions.

Anton




On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Modestas Vainius <modax at debian.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On antradienis 26 Balandis 2011 21:52:51 Anton Gladky wrote:
>> Dear kde users and maintainers,
>>
>> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "eigen3".
>>
>> * Package name    : eigen3
>>   Version         : 3.0.0-1
>> * URL             : http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/
>> * License         : GPL-2+ or LGPL-3.0+
>>   Section         : libdevel
>>
>> It builds these binary packages:
>> libeigen3-dev - lightweight C++ template library for linear algebra
>> libeigen3-doc - eigen3 API docmentation
>>
>> The package appears to be lintian clean.
>>
>> The package can be found on git-repository [1]
>> - URL: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-kde/krap/eigen3.git
>>
>> I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
>
> Generally our interest in eigen3 is very very low. We are forced to maintain
> eigen2 since KDE needs it. But at the moment KDE does not need eigen3 so we
> are very slow to respond to your calls for sponsorship or review.
>
> I've just looked at your debian/rules. You seem to use dh in a very odd non-
> standard way. dh is typically used as a sequencer for "minimal rules" +
> overrides so please stick to that. Also dh would allow you to get rid of
> stamping clutter. What's more, ${BUILDDIR} does not seem like makefile syntax.
> debian/Changelog_upstream looks odd too as it's something that upstream should
> maintain rather than debian maintainer.
>
> If we ever have to care about eigen3, the packaging should be as simple as
> possible. Currently I'm not sure I really like what I see in debian/rules
> alone (haven't looked elsewhere). debian/rules could be reduced to ~10 lines
> without too much effort.
>
> --
> Modestas Vainius <modax at debian.org>
>