Bug#718893: RFS: coinutils/2.9.4-1 [ITA] -- CoinOR base library

[Etienne Millon <etienne.millon@gmail.com>]

* Miles Lubin <miles.lubin@gmail.com> [130807 10:32]:
> Hi Etienne,
> 
> Thanks for reviewing the package. I've uploaded a new version that
> should address your comments, and modified the changelog to target
> experimental.
> 
> I'd like to push forward with the transition, if you're interested.

Sure!

> A few of the coinor packages in the nice depgraph you generated are
> not essential to clp, cbc, or symphony, and unless someone has
> interest in maintaining them, it might be simpler to drop them in
> the transition. These are: coinor-vol, coinor-dylp, and
> coinor-flopc++. OSI can simply be built without depending on vol and
> dylp; in fact, these dependencies are not used at all by cbc or
> symphony.

While we're talking about dependencies: it seems that every source
tarball contains its dependencies. For example, cgl's tarball contains
coinutils' source tree.

There are tarballs containing the full distribution at:
http://www.coin-or.org/download/source/CoinAll/

It seems to be a a little older (the last release is from january
2012), but it would be massively easier to maintain than having N
source packages. What do you think?

> Do we need to file the transition request now, or may we start by
> updating everything in experimental?

I believe it would be OK to upload in experimental.

-- 
Etienne Millon