Re: fis-gtm

[Thorsten Alteholz <debian-med@alteholz.de>]

Hi Bhaskar,

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Bhaskar, K.S wrote:
> I manage the upstream FIS GT.M project.

good to have you here on the list, so I can pelt you with questions :-).

>                                          One of our developers, Laurent 
> Parenteau (a member of Debian Med) has volunteered to help create Debian 
> packages for fis-gtm.  He (and I) will be glad to work with you in this 
> effort.

Great, did you already have a look at the repository? From a developer 
point of view, would you create the package in a similar way?

After building the debug version of fis-gtm, I got some hints from lintian 
about spelling errors. Maybe you can have a look at them:
 spelling-error-in-binary:
  dbcertify preceeding preceding
  dse accomodate accommodate
  dse preceeding preceding
  gtcm_gnp_server preceeding preceding
  gtcm_pkdisp preceeding preceding
  gtcm_play preceeding preceding
  gtcm_server preceeding preceding
  gtcm_shmclean preceeding preceding
  gtmsecshr preceeding preceding
  libgtmshr.so preceeding preceding
  lke preceeding preceding
  mupip Incompatable Incompatible
  mupip preceeding preceding
  plugin/gtmcrypt/gtmcrypt_pk_ref.o utilites utilities


As you might know there are lots of architectures that are supported by
Debian. Unfortunately you only provide initial software for amd64 and i386.
Would it be possible to use any MUMPS compiler to create this minimal system?
Especially would it be possible to use the compiler available at
  http://math-cs.cns.uni.edu/~okane/mumps.html
Do you have some documentation on how to build this initial software?

In case I have the initial software build from lets say version 5.4.002A.
Would it be possible to build a future version 7.9.001 with that software 
or do I need to build the initial software from the same version?

Thorsten