Carlos Enrique Carleos Artime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As described in bug 155075, I intend to package GIAC, a computer algebra > system developed by Bernard Parisse, author of the algebra software of > HP 49G, 40G, 49G+, 48GII calculators. > > GIAC's homepage is > http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html > > The package "giac" is available at apt-get.org. Lines for sources.list: > deb ftp://fisher.ciencias.uniovi.es/debian unstable main > deb-src ftp://fisher.ciencias.uniovi.es/debian unstable main [...] > This is my first try to build a library package.
Have you read the new maintainers guide, and had a look at the developers' reference? I had a look at it, and there are some problems: - The program is packaged as Debian native. This shouldn't be, it should have an orig.tar.gz and a diff.gz. - debian/changelog has entries that don't sound very useful ["No original manpages" - this sentence no verb ;-)]. - README.Debian could be better, too - it's not interesting for users that you should split the package, that you have found an upstream bug (if writing that at all, then also mentioned that you have actually submitted it upstream), and that dpkg-buildpackage can regenerate the package. Besides, the lines got messed up. - as for the rest, it is currently compiling, and since this seems to take quite long I'm sending this mail before it's finished. Happy Easter, Frankk -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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