-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/07 13:51, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > >> From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: dumb question about scons..... >> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:25:27 -0600 >> > On 02/14/07 13:14, Michael Fothergill wrote: >> Dear Debianists, > >> I need to use scons or SCons or whatever it is to help me compile some >> code I got from sourceforge....... > >> I looked around for scons on my box (AMD64 Etch Desktop install) and it >> is not there. I checked in synaptic and scons is in there and has not >> been installed. > >> I am going to install scons 0.96.92-2 unless anyone else has any >> comments to add on this. > > Are you sure you sent this to the correct address? Why do we care > what you install on your box? > >> Well maybe you don't. But I am not used compiling stuff that would >> normally run on an i386 box in this way so I am a bit in the dark. >> However if it works, I am going to try to make deb package file for it >> from scratch. The software is called ASCEND and is a chemical >> engineering modelling progam. It has been released under the GPL I >> think. The authors made some rpms for it and say that you could use >> something called alien to convert the rpms into deb files. > >> But I am interested if I can to make deb package files for it from >> scratch. If it worked I would be willing to offer them to be included
Ah, now I understand. But there is already a scons package in amd64. Is it not built with the options you want? http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/scons >> as a new package in a future Debian release. I don't know if people >> would want this. When I looked in the documentation on building deb >> packages it seems to talk about gnu autoconf etc but scons. I worried >> that the documentation might be out of date and maybe scons is actually >> used to make deb packages nowadays..... > >> The documentation on the deb packages suggested that you had to become a >> debian maintainer before you would be allowed to put a package into the >> debian community officially...... > >> I was going to post something about this later. But since you are >> encouraging me to contribute to the community so avidly then I might as >> well post it now. If I made a deb package could I send it to an >> existing debian maintainer for review? > >> Comments appreciated, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF03NrS9HxQb37XmcRAiOgAJ91r6KJfwEJR+FrGTSC+t27+86nRQCfW5jH HqmKGXzZxZZdb0CxGaiWOE0= =6sxv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
