Re: Release-critical Bugreport for June 9, 2000
> > The current version of PDL (2.005-4) compiles on the alpha, and I believe
> > on all other platforms. This bug is closed, as far as I'm concerned.
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 12:25:31AM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> Ok, but do we want to include it in potato? If so, 2.005-4 won't do it
> (since it's in woody...2.005-2 is in potato).
The changes between 2.005-2 and 2.005-4 are trivial, and 2.005-4 was
intended for both potato and woody.
Here's the changes:
[1] in perldl.conf, get rid of -lMesaGL and -lMesaGLU
This only affects auto-builders. It turns out that
pdl builds fine with mesag-dev not installed, but if
mesag-dev is installed these two libraries cause
problems.
Since the presence of these two libraries would
cause a complete failure to build the package,
removing them seems reasonably safe.
[2] delete Makefile.PL.new
This is a piece of garbage and is completely irrelevant
to the binary package.
Since nothing ever used this file, deleting it
seems safe.
[3] changes to the debian changelog.
Thus the new version number. Also, this was necessary
to update woody [not having pdl in woody caused a
problem].
This is probably the most significant change to
the package.
[4] a minor structural change in debian/rules
checkdir is now a dependency rather than a macro
checkdir gives early warning that something isn't right --
functionally, it can only cause a build to fail. This syntactic
change is thus rather unlikely to change the behavior of the
resulting binaries.
I hadn't meant to let this one creep into the version
for frozen, but it seems pretty harmless. Basically,
there's now a pair of makefile targets that read:
checkdir:
test -f debian/rules
checkroot: checkdir
test root = "`whoami`"
where before checkdir was handled by a defined makefile function.
That's it.
So, really, the only problem with 2.005-2 is that autobuilders won't
deal with it. And, I suppose, if someone can manually build a copy of
pdl for m68k, I'll be content releasing the slightly more warty 2.005-2
for potato. [Personally, I think -4 is more suitable for potato, but
I very much understand paranoia about accepting changes at this point.]
--
Raul
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