On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:30:01PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > Sven - > > Fabio suggested that I contact you for help with packaging the Numerix and > Cryptokit OCaml libraries. (He and Peter are packaging the SKS OpenPGP
Cool. Please notice that there is also the debian-ocaml-maint mailing lists, where all the debian/ocaml maintainers and some other interested in packaging ocaml stuff in debian gather. You should consider joining there. > keyserver, which uses these libraries, and I wound up packaging the libraries > in the course of getting an SKS instance up.) I have attached the e-mail I > sent to Xavier Leroy (the Cryptokit upstream) offering him my changes to And the ocaml upstream too. > Cryptokit to replace its use of the non-free Nat bignum library with Numerix. Mmm, Xavier did already reimplement bignum in the CVS version. I am considering packaging it in experimental for now. Can you make use of that ? Also the copyright is actually in HP hands, and i asked Bdale to look into it. Sadly, he has not time, and the actual stuff seems to be lost in huge piles of paperwork inherited from Dec and then Compaq. > Preliminary numerix and cryptokit source packages are on http:// > www-static.sane.net/. I originally cribbed debian/rules, etc. from extlib, > but am now rewriting them based on your pcre-ocaml source package. (It seems Well, it is more Stefano's package, but it is true that we currently co-maintain it. Also, there is the ocaml-pkg or whatever alioth project, which include the SVN repository where we are migrating our co-maintained packages to. > best to use ocaml-findlibs, and hopefully the weirdness I am having with I personnally don't like findlibs, but indeed it is a good tool to use. > bytecode compilation of the ported cryptokit will go away.) Up until a > couple of days ago I had never used OCaml, so I could definitely use > packaging pointers. Did you read the ocaml-packaging-policy ? It is in the SVN repository, but also in /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07. > IANADD, so I will also need an upload sponsor if these packages are to go > into > the archive. Peter and Fabio have both expressed willingness, but Fabio > thought it would be good to have a sponsor who uses OCaml. I would Yep. Altough they still can sponsor the actual uploads, and we can give you counsel on packaging and everything. > appreciate it very much if you would consider sponsoring. (My changes to > Cryptokit will obviously need some review before they are uploaded; the > upstream cryptokit can't go into main because it depends on non-free parts > that have been removed from ocaml, and it would be nice if cryptokit and sks > made it into sarge main.) You should have asked before. I believe that the API-identic reimplementation that is currently in the ocaml CVS should have been enough to not need your work, altough i don't really understand the issues involved here. I will do a ocaml-cvs package, and you can then try it out, and tell me more about it. BTW, is cryptokit packaged, and if so, in which package does it belong ? Friendly, Sven Luther
