Hi John,
On 26 April 2021 at 23:00, John Scott wrote: | Source: gsl | Version: 2.6+dfsg-2 | Severity: wishlist | | Examples are included in doc/examples along with text files that appear | to contain the programs' output. You'll probably want to just install | the *.c and *.h files though. Well upstream appears to differ in that view and I tend to follow upstream where possibly (as "they generally know best"). Worked well for the 22+ years I maintained this... edd@rob:~/deb/gsl(master)$ tar tvzf ../gsl_2.6.orig.tar.gz | grep examples/ | grep \.txt | wc -l 79 edd@rob:~/deb/gsl(master)$ tar tvzf ../gsl_2.6.orig.tar.gz | grep examples/ | grep \.txt | tail -rw-r--r-- 57584/5000 474568 2018-11-14 15:27 gsl-2.6/doc/examples/siman_tsp.txt -rw-r--r-- 57584/5000 150 2018-11-14 15:27 gsl-2.6/doc/examples/sortsmall.txt -rw-r--r-- 57584/5000 64 2018-11-14 15:27 gsl-2.6/doc/examples/specfun.txt -rw-r--r-- 57584/5000 114 2018-11-14 15:27 gsl-2.6/doc/examples/specfun_e.txt -rw-r--r-- 57584/5000 690 2018-11-14 15:27 gsl-2.6/doc/examples/spmatrix.txt -rw-r--r-- 57584/5000 166 2018-11-14 15:27 gsl-2.6/doc/examples/statsort.txt -rw-r--r-- 57584/5000 154 2018-11-14 15:27 gsl-2.6/doc/examples/stat.txt -rw-r--r-- 57584/5000 279 2018-11-14 15:27 gsl-2.6/doc/examples/sum.txt -rw-r--r-- 57584/5000 51 2018-11-14 15:27 gsl-2.6/doc/examples/vectorr.txt -rw-r--r-- 57584/5000 319 2018-11-14 15:27 gsl-2.6/doc/examples/vectorview.txt edd@rob:~/deb/gsl(master)$ Seems like we should include them. Also, they are _small_. Are you really that bothered by them? Dirk | I'd send a patch, but I frankly couldn't figure out how to do it with | dh_installexamples. If you could commit this to Git, I could add a | (superficial) DEP-8 test checking that they can be built. Perhaps if | the text files do contain the examples' intended output, that could | still make for a good comparison test. | | -- System Information: | Debian Release: bullseye/sid | APT prefers testing | APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (2, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing-debug'), (1, 'experimental') | Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) | Foreign Architectures: i386 | | Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads) | Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND | Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), | LANGUAGE not set | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash | Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) | LSM: AppArmor: enabled | | x[DELETED ATTACHMENT signature.asc, application/pgp-signature] -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
