Hi everybody, Sorry to be so excited. Here is the now-public hg repository:
hg clone http://hg.cilibrar.com/pkg-libsvm/ I welcome all changes that are technically or informationally beneficial and are going to help this quickly get in Debian. I do not want to switch packaging systems at this time because it makes more sense to wait until the package switches completely with me as upstream (maybe with a different name) and I re-enable the autoconf/automake stuff that is currently not visible but on my computer somewhere for later. Cheers, -r. On 10/5/07, Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for this awesome tip. It is actually a big winner and I will > be using it a lot in the future to avoid writing all the useless files > for every new project. > > > As far as this particular issue goes, have you considered simply > > running automake --foreign ? > > This, of course, is a game-changer on my packaging policy (looks like > a way to simplify) so I will be doing that in the future. However, > the AUTHORS and THANKS files serve another purpose in this case > besides letting (simply-invoked) > automake succeed. They also help explain that my friend Chih-Jen and > his friend Chih Chung wrote the core math code together, but I myself > wrote the manpages, packaging related files, and some new features > that Chih-Jen did not accept, like the quiet option. This is > essential to be in Debian but since Chih-Jen never agreed with the > feature enhancement I felt it important to distinguish who added it in > these new files. Because I don't want to add things under his name. > That is why I clarified who wrote what the way I did as I thought was > standard creditting policy. > > BTW the source is not on alioth yet it is downloadable as a tar (but > not automatically) from the web and I have a Mercurial repos here with > the packaging files. I can put it up on a public Mercurial URL > (http:) on my server but I am not sure if I have enough access to put > it up on alioth or not yet ; my Debian account is still waiting. > Cheers, > -r. > On 10/5/07, Aaron M. Ucko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Rudi Cilibrasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Michael Koch believes it is inappropriate for me to be changing > > > AUTHORS and THANKS. Actually, I made those up quite some time ago to > > > allow for automake to be used in packaging (optionally). But, he > > > > > > -- > > Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) > > http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > "We can try to do it by breaking free of the mental prison of > separation and exclusion and see the world in its interconnectedness > and non-separability, allowing new alternatives to emerge." -- after > Vandana Shiva > -- "We can try to do it by breaking free of the mental prison of separation and exclusion and see the world in its interconnectedness and non-separability, allowing new alternatives to emerge." -- after Vandana Shiva -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
