> I'm working on a package (blas) that contains a postscript document with no
> source supplied by upstream.
> Obviously I can remove the postscript file from the binary package, but is
> this sufficient or do I also need to remove it from the source package -
> which implies re-packaging the .orig.tar.gz
> I'd like to get this right because the package was rejected when it was last
> uploaded (by a previous maintainer) because of this.
Source, as we ship the source too. For the (C)/license checks in NEW it
(*nearly*) doesn't matter if you ship it in the binary package or not.
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01-14-2008, 09:41 AM
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Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Source, as we ship the source too. For the (C)/license checks in NEW it
> (*nearly*) doesn't matter if you ship it in the binary package or not.
Right, so a source tarball repack is needed.
Thanks,
Colin
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01-14-2008, 09:49 AM
Thomas Weber
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Am Montag, den 14.01.2008, 10:41 +0000 schrieb Colin Tuckley:
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> Joerg Jaspert wrote:
>
> > Source, as we ship the source too. For the (C)/license checks in NEW it
> > (*nearly*) doesn't matter if you ship it in the binary package or not.
>
> Right, so a source tarball repack is needed.
Which blas package is this? The one from netlib?
Thomas
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01-14-2008, 10:41 AM
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Thomas Weber wrote:
> Which blas package is this? The one from netlib?
It is the one prepared by Kumar Appaiah. It is intended to be a replacement
for refblas3 since it's been transitioned to gFortran. See the thread on
d-toolchain for more details.
regards,
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01-14-2008, 10:52 AM
Kumar Appaiah
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:49:05AM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > Right, so a source tarball repack is needed.
>
> Which blas package is this? The one from netlib?
Yes. Please see the latest mails from debian-toolchain for context.
Thanks.
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01-14-2008, 11:11 AM
Thomas Weber
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Am Montag, den 14.01.2008, 17:22 +0530 schrieb Kumar Appaiah:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:49:05AM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > > Right, so a source tarball repack is needed.
> >
> > Which blas package is this? The one from netlib?
>
> Yes. Please see the latest mails from debian-toolchain for context.
Okay, thanks for doing the grunt work. But which upstream tarball are
you using? Everything I could find at Netlib doesn't have a PDF at all.
Thanks
Thomas
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01-14-2008, 11:29 AM
Kumar Appaiah
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 01:11:36PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > Yes. Please see the latest mails from debian-toolchain for context.
>
> Okay, thanks for doing the grunt work. But which upstream tarball are
> you using? Everything I could find at Netlib doesn't have a PDF at all.
It is a hand-made one, following the _same_ format which Camm used for
the earlier refblas. Refer these:
Kumar
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01-14-2008, 02:13 PM
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Colin Tuckley wrote:
I'm working on a package (blas) that contains a postscript document with no
source supplied by upstream.
Obviously I can remove the postscript file from the binary package, but is
this sufficient or do I also need to remove it from the source package -
which implies re-packaging the .orig.tar.gz
I'd like to get this right because the package was rejected when it was last
uploaded (by a previous maintainer) because of this.
I seems silly to leave out the documentation. For a library like blas you
really need it. It should be possible to extract the text from the
Postscript document using pstotext (apt-get'able)
(http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/pstotext.htm).
(I have never used pstotext, so I don't know how well it works). The
salvaged text could then be reformatted for texinfo, for example.
This leaves the problem of copyright, which I assume is independent of
format, and could possibly simply be propagated to the reformatted document.
Cheers,
Morten (aka mok0)
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01-14-2008, 07:20 PM
Michael Banck
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:13:50PM +0100, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
> Colin Tuckley wrote:
>> I'm working on a package (blas) that contains a postscript document with no
>> source supplied by upstream.
>>
>> Obviously I can remove the postscript file from the binary package, but is
>> this sufficient or do I also need to remove it from the source package -
>> which implies re-packaging the .orig.tar.gz
>>
>> I'd like to get this right because the package was rejected when it was last
>> uploaded (by a previous maintainer) because of this.
>
> I seems silly to leave out the documentation. For a library like blas you
> really need it. It should be possible to extract the text from the
> Postscript document using pstotext (apt-get'able)
> (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/pstotext.htm).
>
> (I have never used pstotext, so I don't know how well it works). The
> salvaged text could then be reformatted for texinfo, for example.
>
> This leaves the problem of copyright, which I assume is independent of
> format, and could possibly simply be propagated to the reformatted
> document.
While I guess patches for this are very appreciated, the gfortran
transition shouldn't stall on this documentation issue, either.
Michael
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