Greetings!  You just need some line like

interest scimax

?  Seems innocuous enough.  Does this mean that if scimax has a
problem executing the trigger, then maxima itself will fail to be
properly installed?

Take care,

Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@debian.org> writes:

> Package: maxima
> Version: 5.20.1-5
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello Camm,
>
> I am packaging a Scilab module called scimax. It allows the usage of Maxima
> from Scilab.
>
> However, to provide this link, scimax needs to build some lisp code.
> The problem I am facing is that this is cannot be done at the construction
> of the package since it is specific to the version of Maxima (ie, if I upgrate
> maxima, scimax stops working).
> The command is the following and the content of the file make.lisp is 
> available
> at the end of this bug report:
> maxima -q --batch-string ":lisp (load \"make.lisp\")"
>
>
> I would like to know if you could install a dpkg trigger (like 
> python-support) 
> into Maxima to allow scimax to rebuilt itself when maxima is upgraded ?
>
> Thanks,
> Sylvestre
>
> PS:
> make.lisp:
> -----------
> ($load "linearalgebra")
> (handler-case
>  (progn 
>    (compile-file "scimax.lisp")
>    (compile-file "scimath.lisp"))
>  (error () (progn
>              (format t "ERROR~%")
>              ($quit))))
> (format t "T~%")
> -----------
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
> 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-4-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages maxima depends on:
> ii  gnuplot-x11             4.2.6-1          A command-line driven 
> interactive 
> ii  libc6                   2.10.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared 
> lib
> ii  libgmp3c2               2:4.3.2+dfsg-1   Multiprecision arithmetic library
> ii  libice6                 2:1.0.6-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
> ii  libncurses5             5.7+20100313-1   shared libraries for terminal 
> hand
> ii  libreadline6            6.1-1            GNU readline and history 
> libraries
> ii  libsm6                  2:1.1.1-1        X11 Session Management library
> ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-2        X11 client-side library
> ii  libxaw7                 2:1.0.7-1        X11 Athena Widget library
> ii  libxext6                2:1.1.1-3        X11 miscellaneous extension 
> librar
> ii  libxmu6                 2:1.0.5-1        X11 miscellaneous utility library
> ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
> ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
>
> Versions of packages maxima recommends:
> ii  gv                            1:3.6.8-1  PostScript and PDF viewer for X
> ii  maxima-emacs                  5.20.1-5   A computer algebra system -- 
> emacs
> ii  maxima-share                  5.20.1-5   A computer algebra system -- 
> extra
>
> Versions of packages maxima suggests:
> pn  maxima-doc                    <none>     (no description available)
> pn  texmacs                       <none>     (no description available)
> ii  tk8.4 [wish]                  8.4.19-4   Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 
> -
> ii  tk8.5 [wish]                  8.5.8-1    Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.5 
> -
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
>
>
>

-- 
Camm Maguire                                        c...@maguirefamily.org
==========================================================================
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