Bug#339463: ITP: glpk-shlib -- shared library for the GNU Linear Programming Kit
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
* Package name : glpk-shlib
Version : 4.8
Upstream Author : Andrew Makhorin <mao@mai2.rcnet.ru>
* URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html
* License : GPL
Description : shared library for the GNU Linear Programming Kit
This package is being introduced with the sole purpose of getting the
following bug fixed:
http://bugs.debian.org/310226
The octave2.9 package links against GLPK, but the glpk package only
provides a static library. Since Octave uses loadable modules for its
functions, we need a gGLPK shared library. I proposed a patch to both
the upstream authors and the glpk maintainer for using libtool:
http://bugs.debian.org/335237
Since this patch does not seem to be used, we (the DOG,
http://pkg-octave.alioth.debian.org) decided to fork glpk as an interim
solution. The proposed glpk-shlib package will be very slim, containing
only the shared library for GLPK (libglpk0) and will not conflict with
glpk. See the thread starting at:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2005-November/000705.html
A preliminary version of the package can be found at the following
apt-getable repository:
http://people.debian.org/~rafael/glpk-shlib
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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