Re: [pure-lang-users] Debian (and Gentoo?) distribution

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

David Baird wrote:
> Okay, a quick update.  I have figured out most of the details of
> packaging Pure 0.5.

Good news!

> My plan was to do a request-for-sponsor on the debian-mentors list as
> soon as I can resolve the errors from Lintian.

Good luck with that. The Debian bureaucracy grinding makes the Catholic 
church look like a modern enterprise. ;-) So if that doesn't pan out so 
well, we'll just release your package on pure-lang.sf.net instead. It 
doesn't really matter how prospective Pure programmers get their Debian 
package as long as they can get it! But of course it would be nice to 
get it into the official distro as well.

> Debian experimental has LLVM 2.3 whereas Debian unstable has only LLVM
> 2.2.  AFAICT, Pure 0.5 wants LLVM 2.3.  I guess that means Pure 0.5
> will also have to be in experimental along with LLVM 2.3...?

Yes. LLVM 2.2 is no go with Pure >= 0.5, unless someone wants to 
backport it to LLVM 2.2. (That shouldn't be difficult, though, the most 
annoying incompatibilities are in the IR Builder class. But the 2.2 JIT 
is awful, that's the main reason why I don't support 2.2 any more.)

>     E: pure: manpage-not-compressed usr/share/man/man1/pure.1

You're probably supposed to gzip the manpage, same on other distros.

>     E: pure: sharedobject-in-library-directory-missing-soname
> usr/lib/libpure-0.5.so

Debian has other packages containing libraries which don't follow the 
usual so.x.y.z versioning, so it must be possible to work around this.

Or maybe you need to release the .so in a separate "library" package? 
That's how it works, e.g., on SUSE (see Toni Graffy's Pure packages on 
Packman).

>     E: pure: copyright-file-contains-full-gpl-license

That sounds like it just wants a short copyright notice in that file. 
But what do I know?

>     Finished running lintian.

Those package sanity checkers really go overboard sometimes. Guess that 
the bureaucratic types found their playground on Linux at last.

A big thank you for your work on this! :)

Cheers,
Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
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