Bug#602977: ITP: ocs -- Opal Compilation System

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Benjamin Drung <bdrung@ubuntu.com> writes:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@ubuntu.com>
>
> * Package name    : ocs
>   Version         : 2.3n
>   Upstream Author : Opal Group, TU Berlin
> * URL             : https://projects.uebb.tu-berlin.de/opal/
> * License         : GPL, LGPL (will probably change)
>   Programming Lang: C, Opal
>   Description     : Opal Compilation System
>
> The Opal project is concerned with research into a programming environment in
> which advanced language concepts and formal development methods can be used for
> creating production-quality software. At the core of the project is the
> algebraic programming language, Opal, which integrates both concepts of
> algebraic specification and functional programming. A comprehensive set of
> tools supporting the language constitutes the Opal compilation system OCS.
>
> I am in direct contact with the upstream maintainer to get the package
> suitable for Debian (relicensing documentation under DFSG compliant license,
> FHS compliance, lintian fixes). We target to have a new upstream version at
> the end of the year and to get this into the archive.

Just to recap from the irc discussion so it doesn't get lost:

Ocs is a bad package name. There is already another ITP for ocs that is
something completly different. Opal-compiler seems like a better choice.

MfG
        Goswin