Testing Lapack dependencies

[Kumar Appaiah-3]

Dear Debian toolchain,

Right now, since Camm is working on Lapack, I am going to now focus on testing my packages, as well as others', which Build-Depend on lapack. I have two queries with regard to this:

1. If I make my package Build-Depend on the Lapack in experimental, my package should enter experimental. Do I have to append a "gf" to such a package, or is this unnecessary, and just a Debian revision bump is enough?

2. If, in the mean time, a new upstream release comes in and I have to move it to unstable, do I revert to the old Build-Depends, build it for unstable etc. and then rebuild it with the new Build-Depends for experimental, or is there a better way? Also bear in mind that I would have to request sponsorship for both editions! :-)

Thanks.

Kumar
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[Riku Voipio-2]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:54:14AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> Right now, since Camm is working on Lapack, I am going to now focus on testing my packages, as well as others', which Build-Depend on lapack. I have two queries with regard to this:

> 1. If I make my package Build-Depend on the Lapack in experimental, my package should enter experimental. Do I have to append a "gf" to such a package, or is this unnecessary, and just a Debian revision bump is enough?

As mentioned in the proposal[1], you only need to add gf -suffix for
shared library packages. Applications and other packages don't need it.

> 2. If, in the mean time, a new upstream release comes in and I have to move it to unstable, do I revert to the old Build-Depends, build it for unstable etc. and then rebuild it with the new Build-Depends for experimental, or is there a better way? Also bear in mind that I would have to request sponsorship for both editions! :-)

Until refblas and lapack are uploaded to unstable, you need to revert
the build-depends for unstable uploads. As for sponsorship, please mail
me and I'll upload on evening.

Cheers,
Riku

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-toolchain/2007/07/msg00001.html

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[Kumar Appaiah]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:26:52 +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:54:14AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > 1. If I make my package Build-Depend on the Lapack in experimental,
> > my package should enter experimental. Do I have to append a "gf" to
> > such a package, or is this unnecessary, and just a Debian revision
> > bump is enough?
>
> As mentioned in the proposal[1], you only need to add gf -suffix for
> shared library packages. Applications and other packages don't need
> it.

Thanks for the clarification. I assume that my package libitpp6, which
Build-Depends on lapack3-dev, should become libitpp6gf, at least for
experimental. Note that this is even though I do not explicitly
Build-Depend on g77.

I shall also get in touch with some other maintainers who maintain
some packages I am interested in, and request them to prepare an
upload for experimental.

> > 2. If, in the mean time, a new upstream release comes in and I have
> > to move it to unstable, do I revert to the old Build-Depends,
> > build it for unstable etc. and then rebuild it with the new
> > Build-Depends for experimental, or is there a better way? Also
> > bear in mind that I would have to request sponsorship for both
> > editions! :-)
>
> Until refblas and lapack are uploaded to unstable, you need to revert
> the build-depends for unstable uploads. As for sponsorship, please
> mail
> me and I'll upload on evening.

Well, I shall definitely ask you to do the experimental uploads, if my
regular sponsor has problems uploading it. Many thanks for this offer!
:-)

Kumar
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