[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Update of 'cimg-dev' package ?

[David Tschumperlé]

Dear All,
I'm the main author of the CImg Library ( http://cimg.sourceforge.net/), 
packaged as 'cimg-dev' on Debian. Note that I'm not the author of the 
actual debian package itself.
Along with F-X Dupé, we worked quite hard to create a script that is 
able to generate a 'cimg-dev' .deb package automatically updated at each 
new CImg release (in fact, this occurs quite often, since we have 
approximately a two months release cycle). This package is mainly based 
on the one created by the original cimg-dev maintainers (Sam Hocevar and 
Christophe Prud'homme). It passes the 'linda' and 'lintian' tests. The 
structure of the package has been slightly modified from the original 
one, but is really coherent and should comply with the debian rules.

I was wondering if you would be interested to
(1) get this recent version of the 'cimg-dev' package for possible 
inclusion in the debian repository.
(2) More generally, have a way to update 'cimg-dev' more regularly and 
more easily (the current version of 'cimg-dev' present in the Debian 
repository is almost obsolete now), using the script we made.
The CImg Library is a quite small library, so its overall structure do 
not change from one version to another. That's why a simple script can 
do the job correctly I guess.

You can check our latest 'cimg-dev' package at :

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cimg/cimg-dev_1.2.6-1_all.deb?modtime=1200046410&big_mirror=0

Of course, from our side we are very motivated to help for this purpose, 
if you need to, so do not hesitate to give us your feedback about this idea.

Regards,

David.

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