Dear APL People, I've been meaning to package APL for Debian for quite a while, and finally got around to it.
Of course I generated a whole bunch of patches to 1.8 in order to get it to build out-of-tree and stuff like that, and uploaded 1.8. Which worked fine. Then I went to figure out where to send the patches, and found that https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/apl "Latest News" release 1.8 was a bit dated. So I forward ported my patches to 2.0, generated some new ones, and uploaded 2.0 to Debian. I've rebased my patches to the most recent master branch in the APL git repo, and pushed them to https://github.com/barak/gnu-apl branch "tweaks". The patches are "master..tweaks", to use the git nomenclature. (BTW, it is a minor pain to have all the autotools-derived files present in the repo. I'd suggest leaving them out, use "make dist" to create a tarball that includes them when necessary.) The fixes I made were: * out-of-tree -Isql Use appropriate autoconf goo with -Isql in Makefile.am * generate HTML and info from texi in builddir doc/ Get this stuff to regenerate correctly out-of-tree, and also simplify the Makefile.am * reconstructed texi files Some *.texi files were missing; reconstructed from the .info files in the distribution tarball * missing @includes There were some missing *.texi @include lines * correct spelling Typos * lintian info-document-missing-dir-{entry,section} Missing stuff in a *.texi file to allow it to install/plug into the info/dir system correctly * move integral.py This file does not belong in /usr/bin/. Cheers, --Barak.
