[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] bfgminer -- draft packaging

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Sun, 26 May 2013 11:02:01 Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Saturday, May 25, 2013 11:31:42 PM Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> > Draft packaging is committed to
> > 
> >     http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-bitcoin/bfgminer.git
> 
> - There should be no build-depends for OpenCL: BFGMiner includes the official 
> headers from Khronos, and uses dlopen to avoid any link-time library 
> dependency.
> - The ADL SDK (commented in rules) is not needed or used at all for BFGMiner; 
> instead, it includes minimal statement-of-fact headers (at least in the US 
> jurisdiction, not eligible for copyright) I wrote to replace the non-free 
> dependency. As the ADL library itself (linked with dlopen) is part of the OS 
> when available, it should fall within the GPL's exception for that.

Thank you for your review. I committed corrections to above issues
that were inherited from "cgminer" packaging.


> - I am aware of the Ztex copyright issue, have been working to resolve it, and 
> expect to have it resolved prior to the next release (soon). Currently, this 
> is waiting only on a license grant from one minor contributor (the original 
> author and other contributors to the code in question are agreeable with 
> GPL-3+ terms).

Very well, I hope re-licensing will be successful. Thanks for taking
care of that.


> - Not familiar with what "libudev-dev [!kfreebsd-any]" does; does it block 
> packaging on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD? Ideally non-Linux platforms would simply 
> build without libudev, since it is optional.

This is exactly what "libudev-dev [!kfreebsd-any]" do: it pulls
"libudev-dev" on all architectures but kFreeBSD (where it is not
available) so package won't FTBFS due to missing Build-Dependency and
will build successfully on kFreeBSD without "libudev-dev" that is not
strictly required.

> In fact, on systems with sysfs, I don't believe there is any benefit
> to building with libudev at all anymore - so perhaps it should just
> be disabled?

I have no idea, sorry. This is beyond my level of competence so I have
no opinion on this.

Regards,
 Dmitry Smirnov
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