Shared library packaging question

2010-03-27 Thread Wuttke, Joachim
Dear specialists, I need more help. Specifically, I am going to ask 3 questions. My debian directory is still messed up, as it has been from the beginning: either the automatic scripts are not ready to assist in generating a shared-library package, or I used them in wrong way. Here my control

RE: Shared library packaging question

2010-03-27 Thread Wuttke, Joachim
One more question (which possibly elucidates my previous questions): The upstream project is structured as follows: lmfit/configure.ac lmfit/Makefile.am # ... and all the resulting autotools stuff lmfit/lib/ # contains library sources and the include file lmmin.h lmfit/demo/ # contains

Re: Shared library packaging question

2010-03-27 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:35:42PM +0100, Wuttke, Joachim wrote: Dear specialists, I need more help. Specifically, I am going to ask 3 questions. My debian directory is still messed up, as it has been from the beginning: either the automatic scripts are not ready to assist in generating a

Re: Shared library packaging question

2010-03-27 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:57:03PM +0100, Wuttke, Joachim wrote: One more question (which possibly elucidates my previous questions): The upstream project is structured as follows: lmfit/configure.ac lmfit/Makefile.am # ... and all the resulting autotools stuff lmfit/lib/ # contains

RE: Shared library packaging question

2010-03-27 Thread Wuttke, Joachim
Thank you, Stanislav, for your helpful explanations. Regarding the name of the package: For many years the upstream project has been called lmfit (since the main application is curve fitting), but the shared library has been called lmmin.so (since the fundamental mathematical operation is

Re: Shared library packaging question

2010-03-27 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 08:24:05PM +0100, Wuttke, Joachim wrote: Thank you, Stanislav, for your helpful explanations. Regarding the name of the package: For many years the upstream project has been called lmfit (since the main application is curve fitting), but the shared library has been