Hi, I am writing to you directly as you are either:
(1) maintaining the upstream debian branch of gnuradio (2) the current maintainer of the Debian package (3) a NMU uploader of the Debian package :) Short version: I want to avoid duplicating any work and enquire if you have the intention of packaging 3.5.0rc0. Long version: I am interested in seeing how we could package 3.5.0rc0 in experimental, as per the bug report in CC (#647018). I have tried to start from the upstream Debian branch and merge in the v3.5.0rc0 tag, but had miserable results. I had never seen git fail so badly at a merge, and you can try it to see, it is not pretty: warning: inexact rename detection was skipped due to too many files. warning: you may want to set your merge.renamelimit variable to at least 1476 and retry the command. Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result. anarcat@marcos:gnuradio$ So I am now looking at creating a fresh new Debian branch off the v3.5.0rc0 tag, and import the debian/ directory in there clean. But that's the "easy" (ie. meta) part - it looks like there's going to be some work on necessary on the dependencies. My first attempt at building a package yielded libtool problems directly in the build bootstrap, and I suspect there will be much more along the way: [ -f ./configure ] || ./bootstrap configure.ac:136: warning: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd config/gr_scripting.m4:22: GR_SCRIPTING is expanded from... [...] gnuradio-core/src/guile/Makefile.am:66: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined gnuradio-core/src/guile/Makefile.am:66: The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' *So*, instead of going on a wild run to start fixing this stuff, I am writing you guys to see if anyone is already working on this or interested in helping. It would be great to have 3.5 make a grand entry in Debian, it would be right in time for Wheezy. :) Thanks for your comments, and sorry for the intrusion. A. -- Information is not knowledge Knowledge is not wisdom Wisdom is not truth - Frank Zappa
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