Hi, David.
Thanks for your reply.
I have fixed all lintian issues, except two:
1. image-file-in-usr-lib (e. g.
usr/lib/open-axiom/share/hypertex/bitmaps/anna_logo.xbm)
2. unusual-interpreter + script-not-executable (e. g.
usr/lib/open-axiom/algebra/D02EJFA.fasl)
The first one requires deep patching of OpenAxiom sources,
and is a part of more general problem, which I will address to upstream.
(this problems was partially solved specially for Debian in SVN commmit
#2299.)
If it absolutely necessary, it can be solved by symlink.
The second is a feature of SBCL: *.fasl files are compiled lisp code,
and they must have a special header. Changing shebang makes SBCL core
unhappy:
>> System error:
#<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file /usr/lib/open-axiom/algebra/INTFACT.fasl"
{100528D291}>
contains an illegal byte in the FASL header at position 0: Expected 35, got
10.
The history of changes:
https://github.com/ip1981/open-axiom-debian/commits/master/
As for relationship between OpenAxiom and Axiom,
AFAIK:
* OpenAxiom continues to use language Boot
* OpenAxiom going away from literate programming
* OpenAxiom uses C++ where Axiom uses shell, OpenAxiom uses autotools, thus
OpenAxiom is more portable, e. g. it has Windows version.
* OpenAxiom has very responsive maintainers,
when I worked on my book on Axiom, on gentoo ebuild, on Debian package,
all my questions were answered, all found issues were resolved nearly in
real time :-)
2011/8/23 David Bremner <brem...@debian.org>
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:54:42 +0400, Игорь Пашев <pashev.i...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "open-axiom".
> >
> > * Package name : open-axiom
> > Version : 1.4.1+svn~2299-1
>
> Hi Igor;
>
> Thanks for working on this, and for making a source package. You package
> builds OK, but it has many lintian errors (attached). You will need to
> fix most of these before the package is likely to be uploaded. Be sure
> to run a recent version of lintian, as it is changing fairly quickly
> these days. Also, I think it would be helpful if you could explain the
> relationship between axiom (maintainer in CC), which is already shipped
> in Debian and open-axiom. Does Debian need both? It's fine if they both
> have something to offer, but if one supercedes the other, then that
> could mean less work all around.
>
> All the best,
>
> David
>
>
>
