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

[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>]

Le samedi 10 octobre 2009 à 19:10 +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit :
> 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.
and ?
There are smaller libraries in Debian.

> > > 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?
Same old stuff, a m4 macro to check the existence of a the header file and the library.

Anyway, I don't understand your point.
Next version of Scilab will use gl2ps as an external dependency. I need
this library to make Scilab works.
The size of the library or if other packages are embedding the sources
or not is irrelevant here.

Sylvestre