Re: Packaging certain libraries as "end-user software"

2015-07-21 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
On 07/19/2015 11:06 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: > ... even if there are no users who care! And won't care in > future because it's clear that upstream is not using a stable API. since the sceintific community was mentioned as the background for these users: i doubt whether they won't care *because* it

Re: Packaging certain libraries as "end-user software"

2015-07-20 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 11:06:45AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > It's less of a library than an environment used for research. Compiling > > > is just a required step to run your code, but applications are usually > > > not distributed in binary form. > > > > What is the benefit of providing a

Re: Packaging certain libraries as "end-user software"

2015-07-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Bas Wijnen [Sun, Jul 19 2015, 04:10:21AM]: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 05:30:04PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > It's less of a library than an environment used for research. Compiling > > is just a required step to run your code, but applications are usually > > not distributed in binar

Re: Packaging certain libraries as "end-user software"

2015-07-18 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 05:30:04PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > It's less of a library than an environment used for research. Compiling > is just a required step to run your code, but applications are usually > not distributed in binary form. What is the benefit of providing a shared library a

Re: Packaging certain libraries as "end-user software"

2015-07-17 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2015-07-17, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > So, I still plan to drop the extra library packages and just move the > shared library to libdune-*-dev. I'd suggest you set it up with shlibs that ensures that packages built against these libraries aren't installable in the archive. /Sune -- To UNSUB

Re: Packaging certain libraries as "end-user software"

2015-07-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 07/09/2015 06:39 PM, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 05:26:32PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> I'm wondering about the shared library packaging requirements in Policy >> for the special case of scientific libraries that are not intended to be >> used by applications, but are

Re: Packaging certain libraries as "end-user software"

2015-07-09 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 05:26:32PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > I'm wondering about the shared library packaging requirements in Policy > for the special case of scientific libraries that are not intended to be > used by applications, but are to be used by end-users directly, What does "t