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.

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Knowledge is not wisdom
Wisdom is not truth
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