Bug#550369: ITP: gl2ps -- Lib providing high quality vector output for OpenGL application

[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>]

Le samedi 10 octobre 2009 à 17:32 +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit :
> Am Freitag, den 09.10.2009, 17:12 +0200 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru:
> 
> > * Package name    : gl2ps
> 
> I'm not convinced, that this is a good idea. gl2ps is a very small
> library and several packages (including scientific ones) are using
> internal copies of gl2ps.
gl2ps.c is 180 ko and the library 60 ko.

> I fear that packaging it will put pressure on all those maintainers,
> whose packages use gl2ps source code to use the packaged version of
> gl2ps. And I cannot see the benfit here. I expect, that this will be a
> lot of work without much help from upstream authors of affected
> software.
I won't force them to do so.

> Which packages are expected to use this library atm (not counting those,
> who ship a copy of gl2ps.c,h)?
Scilab.

Sylvestre