Hi! On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 09:21 -0400, Speedy Chair wrote:
> Is this status from a lack of interest in a Debian / Ubuntu package or > a deeper technical reason? I would say the main reason why the packages become orphaned is the lack of time of the original maintainer. > When you talk about maintenance of a package, can the maintenance > responsibilities be broken down between the actual code and packaging > responsibilities? Yes. > If cuneiform is compiled and installed and a package is created with the > ImageMagick++ libraries present, what will happen if someone installs it on > another computer without the libraries? Does it fall back to the standard > behavior? It will pull libmagick++ automatically upon installation. In the case if cuneiform is dynamically linked against libmagick++ and it does not find it at run time it will just bail out and refuse to run at all. -- Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cuneiform Post to : cuneiform@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~cuneiform More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
