Hi Andrius,
Am Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 10:38:01AM +0300 schrieb Andrius Merkys:
> On 2022-10-03 18:32, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > My main motivation to start ntcard and twopaco packages was to avoid
> > code duplication in pufferfish. I admit it seems I faild in doing this
> > sensibly to forget creating a library package. Simply do whatever
> > brings you forward with pufferfish and fix what I failed to do.
>
> Thanks for replies, Andreas and Steffen!
>
> Alas, I did not get far. Static libraries for ntcard and twopaco are
> easy to add (I have pushed 'static-library' branches to salsa for these
> packages). However, pufferfish has patched main() functions of ntcard
> and twopaco executables in order to use them in internal calls.
This sounds like you should keep the code copies (which was your initial
strategy anyway if I remember correctly).
> At this point I do not think much can be done without getting the
> upstreams of pufferfish, ntcard and twopaco to align their interfaces.
IMHO we need some fast migration path of pufferfish into Debian to
get salmon fixed / updated. I do not have the feeling that aligning
upstreams is a promising way to be fast.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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