Bug#811073: RFS: lbfgsb/3.0-1 [ITP]

[Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>]

HI,


>I didn't make one since upstream's tarball (at least for the latest
>version) contains precompiled binaries, as well as a few files outside
>of any directory (a little tarbomb). It is my understanding that these
>need to be stripped out of the Debian source. Should I make a script
>for that and have uscan run it?
>
>Upstream has a very slow release cycle, and it is my impression that
>the library is more or less "done". Is a watch file still important?


Filex-Excluded copyright keyword might become handy.

please consider, other people might have to understand how did you
do the work, and redo it.

>There is no build system upstream. How should I best approach this
>issue?


add one :)

>- blas.f: We use the system libblas instead of this bundled copy.

nice indeed

>- driver*.f*: These are demonstration files for how to use the
>   library, and are therefore not compiled. Should they be installed
>   as example source files somewhere?


a package-examples might be trivial to add now, but you are the maintainer
you have to know your users' expectations. If you think an example
packages is useful you can add it.


>- linpack.f: We use the system liblapack instead of this bundled
>   LINPACK. See also debian/patches/replace-linpack-with-lapack.patch.


nice


>That leaves only lbfgsb.f and timer.f, as you say. The former containsthe entire substance of the library.

ok

cheers!


Gianfranco