[Pkg-scicomp-devel] lapack_3.2.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Wed Jan 7 12:39:53 UTC 2009


* Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru at inria.fr> [2009-01-07 13:07]:

> Le mercredi 07 janvier 2009 à 13:10 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
>
> > There is no "install" directory at the top builddir, but "INSTALL" instead.
> > Was the pristine tarball repacked with different directory names for the
> > Debian package?
>
> Excellent question! I have no idea. It was done this way by Camm. The Debian tarball of lapack is pretty different
> from the upstream one (for example, timing tests were still included
> despite it was deprecated by upstream).
> I am cleaning it step by step to become closer and closer from upstream
> (I am only doing symlinks for now).
> It is on my todo list to clean this kind of thing.

In the meanwhile, I thing we must provide a README.source file, as per
Debian Policy 4.14 [1]

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-readmesource

-- 
Rafael



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