[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#531373: glpk: Missing Java binding for GLPK

Xypron xypron.debian at gmx.de
Mon Jun 1 05:10:06 UTC 2009


Package: glpk
Severity: wishlist



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-023stab048.6-enterprise
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Bug #253400 has already raised the problem that a Java binding for GLPK
is not supplied.

Falk set the bug to wontfix:
"Because of license problems we currently cannot include these
bindings (they are also removed upstream)."

Constructing a Java binding for GLPK requires only GPL compliant
software:
GLPK
SWIG (as code generator)
GCJ - GNU Compiler for the JavaTM Programming Language
and some libraries already used by GLPK.

I have implemented a Debian package libglpk-java which can be 
downloaded from http://glpk.dyndns.org/debian/pool/glpk/

As GCJ installation is broken in SID on i386, I developped and tested
on Lenny. You can find downported GLPK-4.38 packages in 
the same directory.

If you want to download via apt-get add the following to 
/etc/apt/sources-list
deb http://glpk.dyndns.org/debian/ lenny mine

Best regards

Xypron





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