[Pkg-ace-devel] 6.1.3

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Thomas Girard <thomas.g.girard at free.fr> wrote:

>> The source package for 6.1.3 is now available from mentors and the
>> debian packaging is in git, including libACE_XML_Utils packages.
>>
>> http://mentors.debian.net/package/ace
>>
>> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/ace/ace_6.1.3-1.dsc
>
> Great! Why pushing to mentors btw?

Because I'm still a DM. I ought to apply for DD some day soon :-)

>> There are a few unimportant lintian warnings, and one that does worry me:
>>
>> P source-contains-prebuilt-windows-binary
>> bin/LabVIEW_RT/Reboot_Target.exe
>> bin/LabVIEW_RT/PXI_Reset.exe
>> MPC/MPC.ico
>>
>> It's easy to solve but cumbersome: we'd need to repack upstream's
>> tarball. Johnny, is there any chance those binaries are removed in
>> future releases?
>
> Based on Johnny reply I guess it needs repackaging, at least for this
> version.

We definitely need to repack for this version and maybe also in the
future. As I said in ace-users@, I'd like to have the source code for
the binaries required for LavVIEW RT instead of the binaries
themselves, at least in the -SRC package.

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
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