I'm not only a fink user, but the developer and maintainer of Open Babel, which is one of the packages in fink. :-)
Since it's currently abandoned and we're coming out with a new release, I'm offering to adopt openbabel on Fink and begin to update the packages with upstream versions. My SF e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll put that in the new .info file.
I'm going through the packaging reference, which is quite helpful, but I do have one question. The previous revision created a shared library "the wrong way" (i.e. through a patch to the Makefiles, rather than ./configure --enable-shared).
In other words, if I have fink's openbabel-1.100.1 package installed, I'd have
/sw/libs/libopenbabel.1.100.0.dylib /sw/libs/libopenbabel.1.dylib -> libopenbabel.1.100.0.dylib
But this is bad because the upstream code is now defining (in v. 1.100.2)
/usr/local/libs/libopenbabel.0.0.0.dylib
because of course the shared lib version number should *not* be the same as the package version.
AFAICT, the xdrawchem package also Depends: on openbabel-shlibs.
Any advice? Any other pointers or reading material for a new package maintainer?
Thanks and cheers, -Geoff
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