Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : glpk-shlib Version : 4.8 Upstream Author : Andrew Makhorin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html * License : GPL Description : shared library for the GNU Linear Programming Kit This package is being introduced with the sole purpose of getting the following bug fixed: http://bugs.debian.org/310226 The octave2.9 package links against GLPK, but the glpk package only provides a static library. Since Octave uses loadable modules for its functions, we need a gGLPK shared library. I proposed a patch to both the upstream authors and the glpk maintainer for using libtool: http://bugs.debian.org/335237 Since this patch does not seem to be used, we (the DOG, http://pkg-octave.alioth.debian.org) decided to fork glpk as an interim solution. The proposed glpk-shlib package will be very slim, containing only the shared library for GLPK (libglpk0) and will not conflict with glpk. See the thread starting at: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2005-November/000705.html A preliminary version of the package can be found at the following apt-getable repository: http://people.debian.org/~rafael/glpk-shlib -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]