Bug#717854: O: dmake -- make utility used to build OpenOffice.org
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I intend to orphan the dmake package.
The package description is:
$ apt-cache show dmake
Package: dmake
Version: 1:4.12-2
Installed-Size: 312
Maintainer: Debian OpenOffice Team <debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3)
Description-en: make utility used to build OpenOffice.org
Dmake is a make utility similar to GNU make or the Workshop dmake.
.
This utility has an irregular syntax but is available for Linux, Solaris, and
Win32 and other platforms. This version of dmake is a modified version of the
original public domain dmake, and is used to build OpenOffice.org.
.
Dmake features:
* support for portable makefiles
* portable across many platforms
* significantly enhanced macro facilities
* sophisticated inference algorithm supporting
transitive closure over the inference graph
* support for traversing the file system both
during making of targets and during inference
* %-meta rules for specifying rules to be used
for inferring prerequisites
* conditional macros
* local rule macro variables
* proper support for libraries
* parallel making of targets on architectures
that support it
* attributed targets
* text diversions
* group recipes
* supports MKS extended argument passing
convention
* directory caching
* highly configurable
Description-md5: 53afd6772e20ccbe97a7b282a278dd06
Tag: devel::buildtools, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, suite::openoffice, works-with::software:source
Section: devel
Priority: extra
Filename: pool/main/d/dmake/dmake_4.12-2_amd64.deb
Size: 149006
MD5sum: 7bbff409fc6194c274359edaddb9b2a6
SHA1: 5d86d6cca069eec19588517a19441bf15097986a
SHA256: 1cf79ad6da2e7eda5052eb3eb42542d9e403209fa1265463b123a8312a1fa294
As the description says. Only used by OpenOffice.org (and then OpenOffice and
LibreOffice).
With LibreOffice 4.1.0 (just uploaded) the nw buildsystem named "gbuild" (which
was there before in (bigger) parts) is complete and thus it only
uses GNU make now -> noneed for dmake -> no interest at all anymore.
I guess if noone wants totake it it should be removed...
Regards,
Rene
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