Bug#811073: RFS: lbfgsb/3.0-1 [ITP]

2016-05-05 Thread Gard Spreemann
On Wednesday 30 March 2016 18:31:48 Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi > > >http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbfgsb/lbfgsb_3.0-2.dsc > >addresses the standards-version and the dbg package. I'll have to work > >on the watch file and (if needed) the build system. > > ok, let me know when

Bug#811073: RFS: lbfgsb/3.0-1 [ITP]

2016-03-30 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi >http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbfgsb/lbfgsb_3.0-2.dsc >addresses the standards-version and the dbg package. I'll have to work >on the watch file and (if needed) the build system. ok, let me know when the other points are addressed, and I'll grab it :) (please call it always

Bug#811073: RFS: lbfgsb/3.0-1 [ITP]

2016-03-30 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >I see. I was under the impression that was only to be used when files >are excluded for copyright reasons. I repackaged the upstream tarball >because it included binaries (compiled from the source, one presumes) >and some metadata - not necessarily things that are problematic in a >copyrigh

Bug#811073: RFS: lbfgsb/3.0-1 [ITP]

2016-03-30 Thread Gard Spreemann
On Friday 25 March 2016 18:56:40 Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > something needs changes: > - std-version= 3.9.7 > - no watch file? > - no sane build system, why are you building the library such way? > you seem to use just two files in your library, why everything is dropped? > I don't think flags

Bug#811073: RFS: lbfgsb/3.0-1 [ITP]

2016-03-30 Thread Gard Spreemann
On Wednesday 30 March 2016 14:27:45 Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > HI, > > >I didn't make one since upstream's tarball (at least for the latest > >version) contains precompiled binaries, as well as a few files outside > >of any directory (a little tarbomb). It is my understanding that these > >nee

Bug#811073: RFS: lbfgsb/3.0-1 [ITP]

2016-03-30 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On 30/03/16 15:27, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: - driver*.f*: These are demonstration files for how to use the library, and are therefore not compiled. Should they be installed as example source files somewhere? a package-examples might be trivial to add now, but you are the maintainer y

Bug#811073: RFS: lbfgsb/3.0-1 [ITP]

2016-03-30 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
>Filex-Excluded copyright keyword might become handy. of course s/Filex/Files here https://wiki.debian.org/UscanEnhancements sorry for the typo :) G.

Bug#811073: RFS: lbfgsb/3.0-1 [ITP]

2016-03-30 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
HI, >I didn't make one since upstream's tarball (at least for the latest >version) contains precompiled binaries, as well as a few files outside >of any directory (a little tarbomb). It is my understanding that these >need to be stripped out of the Debian source. Should I make a script >for that

Bug#811073: RFS: lbfgsb/3.0-1 [ITP]

2016-03-30 Thread Gard Spreemann
On Friday 25 March 2016 18:56:40 Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi, Hi, and thanks for the feedback! > something needs changes: > - std-version= 3.9.7 Yep, I'll update that. > - no watch file? I didn't make one since upstream's tarball (at least for the latest version) contains precompiled bin

Bug#811073: RFS: lbfgsb/3.0-1 [ITP]

2016-03-25 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
control: owner -1 ! control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi, something needs changes: - std-version= 3.9.7 - no watch file? - no sane build system, why are you building the library such way? you seem to use just two files in your library, why everything is dropped? I don't think flags in rules are actually

Bug#811073: RFS: lbfgsb/3.0-1 [ITP]

2016-01-15 Thread Gard Spreemann
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "lbfgsb" * Package name: lbfgsb Version : 3.0-1 Upstream Author : Ciyou Zhu, Richard Byrd, Jorge Nocedal and Jose Luis Morales * URL : http://users.iems.north