On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:15:28PM +0100, Peter Van Eynde wrote:
Hello subscribers of cl-debian and friends,
Let me start by saying that I never expected to have so many people on this list. This is a pleasant surprise.
Well, what do you expect? We lurk arround until someone anounces a Lisp meeting or a Deb-CL mailing list ... ;-) Thank's for setting things up.
I'm willing to sponsor anybody wrt. uploads and to help in packaging and general maintainer stuff.
So what needs to be done for Common Lisp on Debian?
First of all some packages from Kevin are still open (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=kmr%40debian.org):
9 #297473: O: openmcl - Native code ANSI Common Lisp compiler and runtime environment 10 #297475: O: openmcl-build-tools - OpenMCL Common Lisp tools for building system -> you better have a Mac to adopt these
I have one :-) And i did bug Kevin about recent build-from-source problems. I currently have both the latest official version as well as a CVS checkout which i debianize - so i could come up with a .deb of a brand new OpenMCL. So if you need help with OpenMCL (or a maintainer, but i'm not currently an official maintainer) i could jump in. I _have_ done a lot of .deb building.
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I'm also working on splitting sbcl into a indep and a arch part, but this is rather complex and will require a bit more time to get it to work. I also closed a cl-postoffice bug and I need to fix the hyperspec package (bug #298026).
Looking at my bug page (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=pvaneynd@debian.org&archive=no) the situation is rather good, most bugs are upstream or features ;-). There is one mystery bug #297801 that I cannot reproduce, has anyone an idea to fix this?
Following my blogentry many people showed interest in the following new packages:
- cl-s-xml (Luca was working on this): packaged but should become a 'native' package - slime: a long time coming but no progress? - elephant: an object database for Common Lisp - CL-PREVALENCE is an implementation of Object Prevalence for Common Lisp - UnCommon Web is a Common Lisp web application development framework.
Iff you/we do this: may i propose that UCW is split up into several sub-packages. A lot of the components (which already have seperate ASDF- files) can be used on their own.
- cl-snmp: A System Management Substrate for Common Lisp - Common Lisp GNU Scientific Library: we could already start in packaging it knowing it is not ready for primetime yet - AspectL is a library that provides aspect-oriented extensions for Common Lisp / CLOS
Any other ideas?
Normal asdf based libraries should be _very_ simple to package up. The main work in checking the copyright; seeing if we can have a native package; if the version number should reflect a 'released' package (aka 2.1) or a cvs-date (cvs-20050304) package; and general integration with the rest of debian.
Anyone want's to hack on a ASDF-Debianize component?
For a simple example see the cl-cil package.
Groetjes, Peter
Ah, does that5 ean you'll be in Amsterdam? cheers Ralf Mattes
-- Peter Van Eynde Peter.Van.Eynde@web.de
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