Hi, I'm terribly late on answering you, sorry it went under my radar :-(
Le mercredi 20 juillet 2022 à 13:20 +0000, Ileana Dumitrescu a écrit : > > It does build! I don't have high hopes at upstream trying to do > > things right as long as it works for him... > > Should I write a debian bug for upstream to fix the Makefile issue? I > do not see an upstream repository to write bugs other than emailing > the upstream developer directly, so I am not sure what you have done > in the past to communicate issues like that. > Writing directly to upstream is how he works. He doesn't use any source management tools as far as I can tell... > > I checked the Help -> Manuals -> ... links in xcas, and most are > > just dead. > > > Since they already were, I uploaded anyway, but that is probably > > something you should look into. > > I looked into this and it appears that all except the CAS reference > and Graph theory links are pointing to files that no longer exist. > There is the large CAS reference manual at cascmd_*/index.html that > seems to include information on most of the dead link topics. Should > all of these dead links point towards a specific location in the CAS > reference manual? This is would I would propose, if not removing the > menu options for the dead links. I can also write a debian bug for > this so that it is documented. > Yes. > > Yes, it would be nice to add yourself as uploader. I removed myself > > because I was fed up with the package more than because it was > > something to do. > > Okay, I added myself as an uploader in the most recent package > version also addressing a riscv bug. If there are any other packages > that you are fed up with or need any help with, you can let me know. > I have time to dive into more :) Well, if you really like packages with difficult upstream and a demotivated me, scilab comes to mind... I had a quick look and your changes are good ; now there's a new upstream and a need for a patch for pari.cpp. Do you want to work on it or shall I do it? Sorry, J.Puydt
