I've just redone the lam-61 package using debhelper. Problem: the source ships with a large tar file of patches.
Solution: prepatch the source with the untarred patches. Is this OK? Problem: this package has an overlapping man page with mpich [another implementation of message passing for clusters]. The two man pages are widely different: is it OK just to make lam conflict with mpich if this is already installed. Where do you set up the conflicts header. Problem: As well as the man pages, there are also various large documents in PS format: one is main docs, one is various papers regarding performance etx. The docs have been gzipped. Do I Ignore these and refer people back to the upstream site for more extensive documentation ? Place these in their own subdirectory under /usr/doc/lam/postscript? Untar/zip them and convert the PS to ASCIi ?? HELP ! Andy
