Re: Intent to package: Malaga
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
antkai>http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/Malaga.en.html
antkai>
antkai>Malaga is "a system for automatic language analysis", an
antkai>Malaga consists of a set of standalone programs, a library, and some
antkai>miscellanea. They all can function without the others (except for
antkai>some of the miscellanea; they need the programs). I'd personally put
antkai>them all into one .deb. However, the Policy manual implies (§ 3.3.3)
antkai>that I must create at least two packages, one containing a shared
antkai>version and the other a static version of the library. This is fine:
antkai>I can create libmalaga4.2 and libmalaga4.2-dev easily. What should I
antkai>do about the standalone programs (which do not currently use the
antkai>library, BTW, although they share many modules witht it)? Create a
antkai>separate binary package for them, the documentation and the
antkai>miscellanea?
Sometimes people would put the programs into magala-bin
eg,
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
un bitchx-bin <none> (no description available)
in giflib-bin <none> (no description available)
un ivtools-bin <none> (no description available)
ii lesstif-bin 0.86.0-2 User binaries for LessTif.
un libforms-bin <none> (no description available)
ii ncurses-bin 1.9.9g-8.8 Video terminal manipulation -
associated pro
ii svgalib-bin 1.3.0-0.3 SVGA display utilities
un svgalib1-bin <none> (no description available)
ii tetex-bin 0.9.980706-1 teTeX binary files
ii xemacs20-bin 20.4-5 Editor and kitchen sink -- support
binaries
Great that you got the license changed.
John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
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