Hi all, On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 05:56:14 Teemu Ikonen wrote: [...] > All included code is from an older version than the latest levmar-2.6, so > making levmar useful in Debian would require a considerable amount of > forward porting and fixing of upstream sources. On the other hand, having > the same code in six source packages is already a pretty bad case of > duplication.
When I looked at levmar a few years ago I had the distinct impression that its authors really wanted it to be statically linked. The result of that is the multitude of different (patched) versions of levmar that you see embedded in different projects. There's a lot of work to do to convince the upstreams of freemat, hugin, meshlab, sextractor, starlink-ast, stimfit and teem that they want to work with a non-patched and up-to-date levmar instead of just continuing with their own versions. Levmar upstream does have some support for building a shared object but I didn't feel confident that sovers would be properly managed and I didn't want to take on that responsibility myself which is why I abandoned my previous efforts with levmar too. (just an added data point for anyone thinking of taking up packaging levmar) cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint BE65 FD1E F4EA 08F3 23D4 3C6D 9FE8 B8CD 71C5 D1A8 GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201310081034.54192.stu...@debian.org
