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 -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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