Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi folks, I think debian-release should probably be dropped from the Cc here, since this is a) a discussion that doesn't involve the release team, and b) doesn't relate to the question of what needs to be coordinated at the package level for the upcoming fortran transition. I don't know about the

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-28 Thread George N. White III
On 7/27/07, Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George N. White III wrote: > > > This transition should not be a tied to gfortran and the gcc toolchain. > > When > > the code has to change, it should be made to conform to current standards, > > or in a few years we will doing it all ov

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
George N. White III wrote: > This transition should not be a tied to gfortran and the gcc toolchain. When > the code has to change, it should be made to conform to current standards, > or in a few years we will doing it all over yet again. One approach would be > to adopt the POSX Fortran bindin

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-27 Thread George N. White III
On 7/26/07, Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/26/07, Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If developers write their `configure' script properly, it shouldn't be > > too much of a problem. The idea is, check for libraries, adding them to > > the `LIBS' varia

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 7/26/07, Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If developers write their `configure' script properly, it shouldn't be too much of a problem. The idea is, check for libraries, adding them to the `LIBS' variable (AC_CHECK_LIB does that), and at the end you check for missing fun

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-26 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Hi all, On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 13:49 -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: ... > I've been using this hack for getarg, building it into the base Cernlib > library "libkernlib" only in the case of compiling with gfortran: ... > Of course, this won't help your configure script not

Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (22/07/2007): > The proposal to transition from the outdated g77 to gfortran did not > result any comments. > If you have suggestions, critique, or you are busy but accept NMU'ing > your packages for gfortran transition.. please speak now. Hi, I'd like to know th

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 13:49 -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > So it seems getarg, which is needed for mpich, is missing from gfortran, > > as are other variants used by other fortran compilers. Is there a > > gfortran equivalent? > > > > Thanks, > > -Adam > > I've b

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Adam C Powell IV wrote: > So it seems getarg, which is needed for mpich, is missing from gfortran, > as are other variants used by other fortran compilers. Is there a > gfortran equivalent? > > Thanks, > -Adam I've been using this hack for getarg, building it into the base Cernlib library "libk

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 01:19 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > Hi, > > The proposal to transition from the outdated g77 to gfortran did > not result any comments. Which rises the suspicion that the maintainers > of affected packages are not reading debian-release or debian-toolchain. Indeed, I don't rea

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-22 Thread Paul Brossier
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 01:19:14AM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > Hi, > > The proposal to transition from the outdated g77 to gfortran did > not result any comments. Which rises the suspicion that the maintainers > of affected packages are not reading debian-release or debian-toolchain. > > If you h

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-21 Thread Carlo Segre
My fortran packages are non-free (pgplot5) or contrib (ifeffit). I have not yet had any time to determine if these are going to cause problems. I am sort of worried though because pgplot5 is quite particular. Carlo On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Riku Voipio wrote: Hi, The proposal to transition f

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Riku Voipio wrote: > Hi, > > The proposal to transition from the outdated g77 to gfortran did > not result any comments. Which rises the suspicion that the maintainers > of affected packages are not reading debian-release or debian-toolchain. > I am not a maintainer of any of the affected packa

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-21 Thread Muammar El Khatib
Hi Riku, On 7/21/07, Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, The proposal to transition from the outdated g77 to gfortran did not result any comments. Which rises the suspicion that the maintainers of affected packages are not reading debian-release or debian-toolchain. If you have suggesti

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Riku Voipio wrote: > Hi, > > The proposal to transition from the outdated g77 to gfortran did > not result any comments. Which rises the suspicion that the maintainers > of affected packages are not reading debian-release or debian-toolchain. > > If you have suggestions, critique, or you are busy

fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-21 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, The proposal to transition from the outdated g77 to gfortran did not result any comments. Which rises the suspicion that the maintainers of affected packages are not reading debian-release or debian-toolchain. If you have suggestions, critique, or you are busy but accept NMU'ing your packages