Le Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:58:05AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 04:00:56PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > A quick apt-file search indicates that at least two other packages (CCed) > > may > > be using the gzstream library, k3d and freecad. So it seems that it would > > make sense to package the gzstream library separately. > > It appears to be just a single file less than four pages long. It does > nothing but translate zlib's API to C++ iostream API. While generally > avoiding duplicated code is a very good idea, it doesn't have to be done > with any small snippet. Heck, I've written three zlib wrappers myself (two > of them had bzip2 support as well), and it never came to me that it's a task > big enough to be worth a whole library.
Since nobody contradicted Adam, I will go for the simplest way and package the software with its convenience copy of gzstream. When contacting upstream, I will nevertheless recommed them the boostiostream library. Thanks everybody for your answers, and have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100526141714.gc13...@kunpuu.plessy.org
