[Pkg-ace-devel] ACE 5.4.4 packages available for testing

[Thomas Girard]

Hi all,

At last I've managed to make non-official packages for ACE 5.4.4.

Please note that these packages are highly experimental, and they will
*never* integrate Debian because ACE 5.4.5 is due really soon. Their
main purpose is to test transition from 5.4.2 packages to ace 5.4.4
packages. All package names were changed from packagename5.4 to
packagename5.4.4 (or 1.4.4) for bug#288161 [1].

To test, add :
   deb http://thomas.g.girard.free.fr/ace/5.4.4/ ./
to your /etc/apt/sources.list. Then try upgrading and report if anything
goes wrong.

What was done:
   o package names were changed to have full soname. Dummy packages
     upgrading to new package name were created. For instance:
       libace5.4 (5.4.4) is now a dummy package depending on libace5.4.4.
       libace5.4.4 replaces libace5.4 (< 5.4.4) and conflicts with
       libace5.4 (< 5.4.4)
   o packages libciao1.4 were renamed to libciao0.4.4.
   o packages now use the DOC group reactor separation. Thanks again
     to Raphael for initiating this and to Marek for porting this into
     ACE, and for his explanations [2].
   o packages libtao-{qt,xt}reactor{,-dev} were renamed to
     libtao-{qt,xt}resource{,-dev}.
   o new packages libtao-{tk,fl}resource{,-dev}.
   o TMCast (transactional multicast) was packaged.

Was was not done (aka TODO list):
   o Commit this to a new branch on Raphael's repo. I would rather wait
     for ACE 5.4.5 to be released, then commit the modified version for
     5.4.5. However you can get sources using darcs [3]:
       darcs get http://thomas.g.girard.free.fr/ace/5.4.4/debian/
   o Backport #307258 fix.
   o Package HTIOP.
   o Write missing man pages (#227132).
     Symlink program.real(1) to program(1) when needed.
   o Package cidlc.
   o Package DAnCE.
   o Have a look at config generated from the configure script and see
     if:
     - we have missed things in our config.h
     - we want to switch to this compilation method
   o Review package descriptions.
   o Write and use mpc-ace.copyright.
   o Document how to compile and launch ACE examples ?
   o Dev Poll Reactor for Linux ?
   o Remove .vsd files from libciao-dev ?
   o Split libciao-dev into libciao-dev and libciao-doc ?

Thanks,

Thomas

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=288161
[2] 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-ace-devel/2005-February/000410.html
[3] http://www.darcs.net