Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475065 --- Comment #13 from Conrad Meyer <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx> 2009-05-31 01:36:43 EDT --- (In reply to comment #11) > Some quick replies: > > > Why should we put this in %doc? How is it remotely helpful? > Maybe %doc is not quite the right place, but as far as I can see it is only an > example makefile, hence documentation, or similar. It certainly should not be > executable, nor should it be mislabelled as a shell script and definitely does > not belong in /usr/bin. Ah, sorry, didn't realize I was putting it in /usr/bin. I would prefer to not install it anywhere, I think. > > This is poor coding practice by upstream, but it isn't a blocker. > Still, please try to contact upstream and if they reply put a copy of the > relevant reply here. or state that they are non-responsive. I note that te Sorry, I don't see any sort of contact info or bug tracking system on the home page. > > Again, upstream's fault... > This is a blocker. I cannot confirm the md5sum without this, which is required > for review - we need to build against an upstream tarball somewhere, and agree > on its location. http://www-lmc.imag.fr/CASYS/LOGICIELS/givaro/Downloads/ may > have what we need. Eh, it won't be an issue *after* review though. I can update to the most recent tarball and you can verify against that md5sum (or, please, sha1sum). > >Sorry, I'm not familiar with the use of this library, I'm just interested in > >getting SAGE (and dependencies) packaged and in Fedora. > > I need some way to confirm that the system is working properly -- do you have a > suggestion? Maybe look at some of their examples on the webpage? > >gmp++ is C++ bindings for gmp, I think > So is this two separate projects bundled into one? I am totally confused. It's developed by the givaro folks, and they distribute it with givaro. I don't believe it's a library that anyone else is supposed to use (at least not yet). But you can try asking them if you want a better explanation. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review