Hello! We're finally arrived to an end :-D On Sat 29 Oct 2005 13:23 +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
Analyzing Marco's code and checking back the discussion Marco and I had when I first packaged YACLML, I now remember the problem (because there's a problem, sorry)... <cut> And my idea for the debianization:
1) arnesi depends on clc (in Debian this implies cl-asdf) recommends FiveAM, cl-ppcre and qbook
2) FiveAM depends on clc and arnesi recommends qbook
3) qbook depends on clc, arnesi, iterate, cl-ppcre and yaclml
4) YACLML depends on clc, arnesi and iterate recommends FiveAM and qbook
Moreover, I can add on the package description (or in the README.Debian) why the recommendations, to advice the user of the other functionalities.
I found another package (not a CL package, sorry) that shares the same problem (inkscape) [1] [2] and I asked for advice on the Debian-devel mailing-list [3]. As I suspected, the Recommends field is the way to go. And there's no README.Debian explaining why :-D Here the cl-arnesi package description: ===== Package: cl-arnesi Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} Recommends: cl-ppcre, cl-fiveam, cl-qbook Description: small Common Lisp utilities arnesi is a Common Lisp utility suite. It contains various "bits 'n pieces" of code which were useful while developing other code. . Features: * Flow control macros - while, whichever, if-bind, etc. * A simple logging facility - kind-of/sort-of/maybe like log4j. * HTTP/HTML utilities - URL and HTML escaping * Pattern matching - fare-matcher style pattern matcher and "regular" list matcher * Accumulation - collecting and reducing macros * Cps transformer - an ad-hoc, bug ridden implementation of half of call/cc. * Decimal arithmetic - convert floats to exact rationals and vice versa with a given precision; standard rounding functions. * MOP compatibility package - The MOPP package provides the MOP's symbols on various implementations. Currently OpenMCL, CMUCL, SBCL, Lispworks and CLISP are supported. . The recommended packages add extra features: documentation via cl-qbook, test suite with cl-fiveam and add-ons for cl-ppcre. . This is the development version. ===== If I'm not getting any negative feedback for tomorrow (Friday 3th) 00:00 UTC, I'll start submitting ITP for arnesi, FiveAM, qbook and YACLML using that backbones. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317767 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328423 [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00066.html