Hi! I have indeed done a little work on packaging levmar for debian but my efforts stalled in the following places: * it seems that the upstream developers see levmar as some code you include in some other project not as a shared library. They have at least started providing a so-producing makefile, but I'm not sure how committed to binary compatibility they are. * I wasn't sure that SONAMEs were being bumped correctly and I don't yet know enough about SONAMEs to do this confidently on my own, so it slipped down my priority list somewhat. * I originally thought that there were several users of levmar already in debian but when I went looking there appears to only be one (hugin) which is using a heavily modified, very old internal copy of levmar and the prospects of getting hugin to use a shared library version of levmar seem slim in the short term at least. * I tried to contact the upstream authors of levmar to talk to them about packaging their library and to start developing a working relationship with them but never received a reply to my emails. Having said that, levmar still looks like interesting code and it might be useful to have it in debian anyway, although the general rule that it's not worth packaging a library until there is some other package in debian to use it make me wonder if it's worth it at this stage. Chicken and egg. I'd like to revisit levmar once squeeze is released and see if hugin can start using a newer version of levmar as a shared object instead. I'd be looking for someone with more experience in packaging libraries to help me with this though. cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescott www.nanoNANOnano.net
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