Re: Fwd: Cryptokit port to Numerix
ARHG..... Nein
Well,
I have packaged cryptokit and made an ITP for it. The package is ready
but missing sponsorship and numeric.
Well, i hope it doesn't take too much time for you to package it...
Anyway, actually there is still the numeric problem...
Cheers
Sylvain LE GALL
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:09:27AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:30:01PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote:
> > Sven -
> >
> > Fabio suggested that I contact you for help with packaging the Numerix and
> > Cryptokit OCaml libraries. (He and Peter are packaging the SKS OpenPGP
>
> Cool.
>
> Please notice that there is also the debian-ocaml-maint mailing lists,
> where all the debian/ocaml maintainers and some other interested in
> packaging ocaml stuff in debian gather. You should consider joining
> there.
>
> > keyserver, which uses these libraries, and I wound up packaging the libraries
> > in the course of getting an SKS instance up.) I have attached the e-mail I
> > sent to Xavier Leroy (the Cryptokit upstream) offering him my changes to
>
> And the ocaml upstream too.
>
> > Cryptokit to replace its use of the non-free Nat bignum library with Numerix.
>
> Mmm, Xavier did already reimplement bignum in the CVS version. I am
> considering packaging it in experimental for now. Can you make use of
> that ? Also the copyright is actually in HP hands, and i asked Bdale to
> look into it. Sadly, he has not time, and the actual stuff seems to be
> lost in huge piles of paperwork inherited from Dec and then Compaq.
>
> > Preliminary numerix and cryptokit source packages are on http://
> > www-static.sane.net/. I originally cribbed debian/rules, etc. from extlib,
> > but am now rewriting them based on your pcre-ocaml source package. (It seems
>
> Well, it is more Stefano's package, but it is true that we currently
> co-maintain it. Also, there is the ocaml-pkg or whatever alioth project,
> which include the SVN repository where we are migrating our
> co-maintained packages to.
>
> > best to use ocaml-findlibs, and hopefully the weirdness I am having with
>
> I personnally don't like findlibs, but indeed it is a good tool to use.
>
> > bytecode compilation of the ported cryptokit will go away.) Up until a
> > couple of days ago I had never used OCaml, so I could definitely use
> > packaging pointers.
>
> Did you read the ocaml-packaging-policy ? It is in the SVN repository,
> but also in /usr/lib/ocaml/3.07.
>
> > IANADD, so I will also need an upload sponsor if these packages are to go into
> > the archive. Peter and Fabio have both expressed willingness, but Fabio
> > thought it would be good to have a sponsor who uses OCaml. I would
>
> Yep. Altough they still can sponsor the actual uploads, and we can give
> you counsel on packaging and everything.
>
> > appreciate it very much if you would consider sponsoring. (My changes to
> > Cryptokit will obviously need some review before they are uploaded; the
> > upstream cryptokit can't go into main because it depends on non-free parts
> > that have been removed from ocaml, and it would be nice if cryptokit and sks
> > made it into sarge main.)
>
> You should have asked before. I believe that the API-identic
> reimplementation that is currently in the ocaml CVS should have been
> enough to not need your work, altough i don't really understand the
> issues involved here. I will do a ocaml-cvs package, and you can then
> try it out, and tell me more about it.
>
> BTW, is cryptokit packaged, and if so, in which package does it belong ?
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
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