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Re: dumb question about scons.....



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On 02/14/07 13:51, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: dumb question about scons.....
>> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:25:27 -0600
>>
> On 02/14/07 13:14, Michael Fothergill wrote:
>> Dear Debianists,
> 
>> I need to use scons or SCons or whatever it is to help me compile some
>> code I got from sourceforge.......
> 
>> I looked around for scons on my box (AMD64 Etch Desktop install) and it
>> is not there.  I checked in synaptic and scons is in there and has not
>> been installed.
> 
>> I am going to install scons 0.96.92-2 unless anyone else has any
>> comments to add on this.
> 
> Are you sure you sent this to the correct address?  Why do we care
> what you install on your box?
> 
>> Well maybe you don't.  But I am not used compiling stuff that would
>> normally run on an i386 box in this way so I am a bit in the dark. 
>> However if it works, I am going to try to make deb package file for it
>> from scratch.  The software is called ASCEND and is a chemical
>> engineering modelling progam.  It has been released under the GPL I
>> think.  The authors made some rpms for it and say that you could use
>> something called alien to convert the rpms into deb files.
> 
>> But I am interested if I can to make deb package files for it from
>> scratch.  If it worked I would be willing to offer them to be included

Ah, now I understand.

But there is already a scons package in amd64.  Is it not built with
the options you want?

http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/scons

>> as a new package in a future Debian release.  I don't know if people
>> would want this.  When I looked in the documentation on building deb
>> packages it seems to talk about gnu autoconf etc but scons.  I worried
>> that the documentation might be out of date and maybe scons is actually
>> used to make deb packages nowadays.....
> 
>> The documentation on the deb packages suggested that you had to become a
>> debian maintainer before you would be allowed to put a package into the
>> debian community officially......
> 
>> I was going to post something about this later.  But since you are
>> encouraging me to contribute to the community so avidly then I might as
>> well post it now.  If I made a deb package could I send it to an
>> existing debian maintainer for review?
> 
>> Comments appreciated,
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