ACE 5.4.2 packages (was: Re: [Pkg-ace-devel] [ciao-users] CIAO questions ...)

[Thomas Girard]

Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> On Παρ 03 Σεπ 2004 01:10, Thomas Girard wrote:
> 
>>1. Switching to ACE 5.4.2
>>=========================
>>Patches are available in
>>http://thomas.g.girard.free.fr/ace/patches.
> 
> 
> Ok, I'll take a look at them during the week, right now my schedule is 
> very busy unfortunately.
> 
> 
>>I haven't tried recompiling Debian packages since this split. I
>>will tomorrow and let you know if I encounter any problem.
> 
> 
> Ok, I'd like to hear how that goes. Basically Brian Nelson the other 
> ACE co-maintainer was working on exactly using dpatch on the 
> packages, but I can't seem to be able to reach him lately. Brian, are 
> you reading this?

Well, I've hit a bug... The fix is in patches/debian-fix.diff.

I also have a strange behaviour that seems to be a bash3 + debhelper bug 
on sid. Any meta character in *-docs.doc throws errors when using 
dh_installdocs. So I'm currently recompiling on sarge, but the machine 
is much more slower, and I cannot yet say everything is fine. I'll post 
again when I'm done compiling...

> 
>>Noteworthy stuff :
>>* There is a package named `mpc' on mentors.debian.net. Following
>>gperf example maybe mpc should be renamed to mpc-ace.
> 
> Agreed.

Done.

>>* X and/or Qt reactor were completely removed.
> 
> 
> Hm, perhaps we should allow the creation of extra packages using mpc 
> makefiles, but I have no experience with mpc whatsoever so I would 
> appreciate any help. It would be handy to provide extra packages for 
> those who use these reactors.
> 

I'll try to have a look at this tomorrow.

>>* A bug fix was backported from CVS
>>* I've reported and proposed a patch for an issue in MPC.
> 
> Let's include it.

Okay.

>>* I have tried to tackle as many opened bugs as possible. Currently
>>I have no idea about Bug#265238 status.
> 
> 
> me too, it's too vague, let's see how the user deals with new 
> versions.
> 
> 
>>2. Reactor separation using MPC
>>================================
>>
>>I need to think more about this and read again that thread in
>>archives.
> 
> 
> Ok.

I'll let you know when I make progress in this area.

> 
>>3. cidlc package
>>================
>>
>>There are external dependencies for cidlc to be built. They are
>>Debian packages available from
>>ftp://kolpackov.net/pub/Utility/Utility-1.2/deb. I think this
>>dependency should be handled first.
> 
> 
> I can't say for sure that I can do a new package upload this close to 
> the sarge release. It might be best to leave the cidlc package for 
> post-sarge.

Okay.

> 
> Regards
> 
> Konstantinos


Regards,

Thomas