Re: Packaging a difficult project

2007-08-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11101 March 1977, Brendon Costa wrote: >>> EDoc++ binaries are currently around 20M. It does not require any >>> special binutils etc, but will just use what is already available for >>> the system. I am currently building a single non-policy conformant .deb >>> package. >> I think the concern

Re: Packaging a difficult project

2007-08-04 Thread Brendon Costa
Steve Langasek wrote: >> I am not sure where the 1G comes from, unless talking about the >> duplicity across various mirrors. > > No, this is an estimate based on the actual usage of pool/main/g/gcc-4.1 on > current Debian mirrors. (12 archs * 3 versions * n binary packages) > > Your note on the

Re: Packaging a difficult project

2007-08-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 07:49:56PM +1000, Brendon Costa wrote: > The tarball of all source necessary to build EDoc++ is 25M and extracted > it is: 47M. > EDoc++ stores in its source tree patches against GCC along with the GCC > original tarballs, and at build time will extract the gcc tarballs in

Re: Packaging a difficult project

2007-08-04 Thread Brendon Costa
Thomas Jollans wrote: > On Saturday 04 August 2007, Brendon Costa wrote: >> EDoc++ binaries are currently around 20M. It does not require any >> special binutils etc, but will just use what is already available for >> the system. I am currently building a single non-policy conformant .deb >> packag

Re: Packaging a difficult project

2007-08-04 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Saturday 04 August 2007, Brendon Costa wrote: > EDoc++ binaries are currently around 20M. It does not require any > special binutils etc, but will just use what is already available for > the system. I am currently building a single non-policy conformant .deb > package. I think the concern is m

Re: Packaging a difficult project

2007-08-03 Thread Brendon Costa
> >> I believe that edoc doesn't use the code generator, only the front >> end, so it doesn't need care from port maintainers. > The GCC modification attempts to change as little in the GCC framework as possible and just performs analysis on the data structures generated by GCC as it compiles co

Re: Packaging a difficult project

2007-08-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:35:14PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Hmm, I would question whether this is something we'd want to include in the > > Debian archive as-is; I think we already have way too many gcc packages > > being carried around with our releases and that we need to try to make thi

Re: Packaging a difficult project

2007-08-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve Langasek: > Hmm, I would question whether this is something we'd want to include in the > Debian archive as-is; I think we already have way too many gcc packages > being carried around with our releases and that we need to try to make this > number go down, not add more copies of the gcc s

Re: Packaging a difficult project

2007-08-03 Thread Brendon Costa
Thanks for the response. > > Hmm, I would question whether this is something we'd want to include in the > Debian archive as-is; I think we already have way too many gcc packages > being carried around with our releases and that we need to try to make this > number go down, not add more copies of

Re: Packaging a difficult project

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:46:44AM +1000, Brendon Costa wrote: > I have a software project that I plan on creating Debian packages for > which is quite different from many other packages in that it also > installs patched versions of GCC and Doxygen (That must not conflict > with existing install