Bug#550369: ITP: gl2ps -- Lib providing high quality vector output for OpenGL application
Am Samstag, den 10.10.2009, 18:10 +0200 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru:
> 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.
That's not much. The library consists of 2 source files.
> > 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.
That's more a question of policy: 4.13. ATM this is a should. But to
make packages using internal copies of gl2ps use the pre-packaged
library, it would be necessary (well, AC_SEARCH_LIBS, ... can be used
withoutthe following) for gl2ps to support pkg-config or aclocal or
something similar.
> > Which packages are expected to use this library atm (not counting those,
> > who ship a copy of gl2ps.c,h)?
> Scilab.
How does it detect the library?
Found avogadro and drawxtl shipping with a convenience copy of gl2ps.
xcrysden ships one too, but is not yet in Debian.
Regards, Daniel
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