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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru at inria.fr> [2009-01-07 16:37]:

> > > Lintian is giving the two following errors:
> > > 
> > > E: liblapack-doc: doc-base-file-references-missing-file liblapack-doc.lug:8 /usr/share/doc/liblapack-doc/lug/index.html
> > > E: liblapack-doc: doc-base-file-references-missing-file liblapack-doc.lug:9 /usr/share/doc/liblapack-doc/lug/*.html
> > > 
> > > It seems that the doc rule in debian/rules must be exercised, but it doesn't.
> > Seems they forgot the html pages in the tarball. I am in touch with them
> > about that issue.
> > Thanks for pointing this out. I missed it.

Thank Lintian, not me :-)

> Replying to myself. This stuff (the lug ... Lapack User Guide) in the
> 3.1.1 package was also something added by hand by Camm.
> 
> I am not sure what to do here. I see two solutions:
> * repack the debian lapack tarball to add lug html inside
> * remove in from the liblapack-doc package
> 
> I am in favour to match upstream as much as possible. Therefor I would
> select the second choice but is there any objection ?

I think we should not remove stuff gratuitously, since it can provoke
surprise on our users.  Perhaps we could fix debian/orig-tar.sh for now,
such that it retrieves the lug html stuff and includes it in the "upstream"
tarball.  I will look at this later.

In the future, we could create a separate package lapack-doc and add a
get-orig-source to its debian/rules to generate the tarball.

-- 
Rafael