[EMAIL PROTECTED] has no restrictions about who can post there. No need to subscribe before posting. I would also check the archive (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0105) in case someone has not cc'ed his response to you. > On Tue, 22 May 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > > > I am the main programmer of Freecell Solver, which is a library and an > > > executable for automatic solving of boards of Freecell and similar > > > Solitaire variants. Freecell Solver is already used by KDE's Solitaire > > > suite - kpat - > > > > > > > > I am not familiar with the KDE debs. Yet if kapt _depends_ (= can not run > > without it) on Freecell than this might solve part of the problem of having a > > deb for it since whoever package kapt will probably need to include Freecell > > in some way or another. > > > > Actually, theoretically kpat can run without Freecell Solver, but in that > case it will either have no Freecell auto-solve or a very primitive and > bad one. At present, kpat is statically linked with a copy of the Freecell > Solver source code. But I'd like to make Freecell Solver a shared library, > and have all the Freecell implementations link against it. > > > > > > > > and it is expected that it will be used by PySol and by > > > GNOME's AisleRiot as well. Thus, I decided to make it into a package that > > > will be used by all of those Freecell implementations. > > > > > > > > > > > Same thing as above. > > > > I'd rather have an organized and official deb file, so other people can > use it as a reference and/or include it in their distributions, rather > than let people figure out how to install it on their own. > > It's good Linux etiquette. > > > > > > > > Freecell Solver now has an Autoconf/Automake/libtool-based building > > > process that generates a shared library, a static library, and an > > > executable that links against the shared library. I have already written > > > an RPM SPEC for it (partially in thanks to Tzafrir Cohen's lecture), and > > > installing it by rpm seems to work fine. > > > > > > However, I would also like to have a Debian package it. Now, since I don't > > > use Debian regularily nor its package system, I would like to have someone > > > who does, so he can maintain it for me. Thus, if anyone of you wishes to > > > be one, or can forward this message to a global Debian mailing-list, I > > > would be grateful to you. > > > > > > > > > > > You might want to post this yourself on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do not > > expect too much though. > > > > Thanks, I'll do that. Does it post messages from those that are not > registered? (I'm not). > > > > > > > What the maintainer should have (in that order): > > > > > > 1. Familiarity with how to make a Debian package or a willingless to learn > > > it. > > > > > > 2. Familiarity with RPM SPECS. I maintain the RedHat package, and he could > > > build the Debian based on its SPEC. > > > > > > > > > > > Can't hurt but no real need for that. > > > > Actually, there is one. I maintain the RPM SPEC, and I would like the > debian package to correspond to it. > > > In the meantime one might _try_ alien: > > > > Package: alien > > Priority: optional > > Section: admin > > Installed-Size: 181 > > Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Architecture: all > > Version: 7.22 > > Depends: debhelper (>= 3), perl, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio > > Suggests: patch, bzip2 > > Filename: pool/main/a/alien/alien_7.22_all.deb > > Size: 111874 > > MD5sum: 300ba678067a28af44a8ca6626545104 > > Description: Install Red Hat, Stampede, and Slackware Packages with dpkg. > > Alien allows you to convert Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into > > Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg. > > . > > It can also convert into Slackware, Red Hat, and Stampede packages. > > . > > This is a tool only suitable for binary packages. > > > > I also want to have an source Debian package. > > But in any case, I don't know how trustworthy is alien, but I'll try it > anyways. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > > > > Yet I never used alien myself, which is why I can not tell how good it is > > for your specific task. > > -- > > > > Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me? > > Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when? > > (Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14) > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ > Home E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > A more experienced programmer does not make less bugs. He just realizes > what went wrong more quickly. > -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me? Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when? (Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
