On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Andrés Goens <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Bernhard R. Link <[email protected]> wrote: >> * Lifeng Sun <[email protected]> [110806 16:33]: >>> On 16:06 Sat 08/06/11 Aug , Andrés Goens wrote: >>> > I was actually thinking of getting involved with singular by myself, >>> > especially after I realized I could use it for my thesis. I would >>> > volunteer for helping with it, although I would need a sponsor for >>> > that (I'm not DM or DD). >>> >>> FYI: singular depends on ntl, which is another outdated package >>> maintained by Tim Abbott, I think you need take care of it first. >> >> As libntl (at least the Debian version) has a dynamic version added >> manually (though the patch looks a bit like it comes from SAGE) and >> has a very specific soname (including all three digits of the version), >> and some reverse dependencies (not yet even looked at the reverse >> build dependencies) it might make sense to start with a new source package >> for newer versions of libntl with it's own -dev package name and >> gradually use the new one until the old is no longer needed. >> > > I'm not sure I understand exactly what you mean. This new package > would not include said patch, and just give the static upstream > libraries? > I would actually like to try and do this, but I have never really > packaged anything for debian. I would try to do it following the new > maintainers guide. Is this a bad idea? Is it maybe too complicated > this special case? If not, would someone be willing to look at it and > help me out with it? > > Looking at the installation doc provided by upstream there is also > option to compile it for working with some other libraries: gmp and > gf2x, which optimize it for special tasks. Should it be compiled with > these by default, and make it depend on them, or what is the usual > proceding? (Sorry if I am asking something obvious, I didn't know how > to look for it).
Will think yes > Cheers, > > Andrés > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/cadwsf3h4m_85ocsorqewas7gzfx1hkm4exos6dbybqwx9o...@mail.gmail.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cae2spazwvdexfujh6sovgxrdsrwb+vl+5xyw6jbbnkfbe01...@mail.gmail.com
