Hi Andreas,
Good to hear from you.
On 4 October 2006 at 21:04, anfra wrote:
| On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:18:03PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > pgapack (1.0.0.1-4.3) unstable; urgency=low
| >
| > * Non-maintainer upload.
| > * source/integer.c: Apply patch for one-off error (Closes:
#333381)
| > * debian/rules: Install examples directly (Closes:
#134331)
| >
| > -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:55:54 -0500
| >
| > I need a modified version of pgpack and I started to look into this. Do you
| > want me to upload the above ?
| >
| > Thanks for packaging pgapack. It could do with some polishing, though, or it
| > risks being thrown out of the upcoming release.
| >
| > Dirk
| >
| > --
| > Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
| > -- Thomas A. Edison
| >
|
| Hallo Dirk,
|
| there is a license problem with pgapack. Details are in Bug#379388.
| I sent an email to Mr Rusty Lusk from MCS at anl.gov. with copy to
I saw that. The anl.gov lab is actually only 20 miles from where I live...
| Bug#379388 but I did not receive a reply. The next thing I
| intended to do is to sent a paper mail, explaining to them the
| importance of the Debian Project to make software like pgapack
| usable for a longer time. Without the adaptions made by the Debian Project
| pgapack cannot compile on current Linux systems and the problem
Huh? Cannot compule on current Linux systems? What are you talking about
here?
| is too difficult to solve for most users. So, most people interested in
| using pgapack could not do it.
|
| Since I am very busy with work right now and you seem to be
| interested in pgapack I would like you very much to take pgapack and deal
| with this license issue.
|
| Website of MCS is www-new.mcs.anl.gov and the home page of
| Mr Rusty Lusk is www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~lusk/
I know. But consider
i) pgapack is no longer listed among the software they provide
ii) David Levine seems to have left there a long time ago, and I cannot
find him on the web.
so I think our chances are very slim to get this resolved. I could give Dr
Lusk a call -- after all, there are other ANL/U of Chicago pieces with much
more liberal and modern licenses (e.g. Swig).
I rewrote your debian/rules from scratch today to build myself a shared
library version. But given the license cloud, it may be best to just bury
pgapack and switch to something at least marginall supported like GAlib.
Let me know your thoughts, Dirk
--
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
-- Thomas A. Edison
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