Quoting Daniel Kahn Gillmor (2012-12-21 06:46:27)
> On Thu 2012-12-20 23:32:51 -0500, gregor herrmann wrote:
>
> > Not at all -- keep 'em coming, those perl modules :)
>
> :) As i look into packaging Math::MPFR, i notice that the upstream
> author ("Sisyphus") has a bunch of tests that interoperate with
> Math::GMPz, Math::GMPq, and Math::GMPf, which aren't in debian (and are
> also written by Sisyphus). AFAICT, Math::GMP (which is in debian)
> covers that territory in more perlish ways. And Math::BigInt::GMP does
> the same thing for bigint notation.
>
> Is there any reason we should consider Math::GMP[zqf] for debian as
> well? I'm inclined to leave it alone for now since i have no immediate
> need for them, and i like the Math::GMP and Math::BigInt::GMP interfaces
> just fine.
>
> The test suites for Math::MPFR also reference Math::Decimal64 and
> Math::LongDouble (two more packages also by Sisyphus), but those package
> appear to be focused on working around various weird business with
> Microsoft compilers, afaict. So i'm inclined to not bother with those
> as well, and just let a bunch of the test suites be skipped.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions or thoughts about this, i'd be happy to
> hear them. Otherwise, this message will just sit in the archive as
> evidence of why i'm ignoring those other packages at this time :)
Maybe that was implied, but please consider also mention your resoning
in the source package - e.g. in README.source.
- Jonas
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