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Re: Looking for a Debian Maintainer for Freecell Solver
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> On Tue, 22 May 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
>
> > >
> > > I am the main programmer of Freecell Solver, which is a library and an
> > > executable for automatic solving of boards of Freecell and similar
> > > Solitaire variants. Freecell Solver is already used by KDE's Solitaire
> > > suite - kpat -
> >
> >
> >
> > I am not familiar with the KDE debs. Yet if kapt _depends_ (= can not run
> > without it) on Freecell than this might solve part of the problem of having a
> > deb for it since whoever package kapt will probably need to include Freecell
> > in some way or another.
> >
>
> Actually, theoretically kpat can run without Freecell Solver, but in that
> case it will either have no Freecell auto-solve or a very primitive and
> bad one. At present, kpat is statically linked with a copy of the Freecell
> Solver source code. But I'd like to make Freecell Solver a shared library,
> and have all the Freecell implementations link against it.
>
> >
> >
> > > and it is expected that it will be used by PySol and by
> > > GNOME's AisleRiot as well. Thus, I decided to make it into a package that
> > > will be used by all of those Freecell implementations.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > Same thing as above.
> >
>
> I'd rather have an organized and official deb file, so other people can
> use it as a reference and/or include it in their distributions, rather
> than let people figure out how to install it on their own.
>
> It's good Linux etiquette.
>
> >
> >
> > > Freecell Solver now has an Autoconf/Automake/libtool-based building
> > > process that generates a shared library, a static library, and an
> > > executable that links against the shared library. I have already written
> > > an RPM SPEC for it (partially in thanks to Tzafrir Cohen's lecture), and
> > > installing it by rpm seems to work fine.
> > >
> > > However, I would also like to have a Debian package it. Now, since I don't
> > > use Debian regularily nor its package system, I would like to have someone
> > > who does, so he can maintain it for me. Thus, if anyone of you wishes to
> > > be one, or can forward this message to a global Debian mailing-list, I
> > > would be grateful to you.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > You might want to post this yourself on debian-devel@lists.debian.org. Do not
> > expect too much though.
> >
>
> Thanks, I'll do that. Does it post messages from those that are not
> registered? (I'm not).
> >
> >
> > > What the maintainer should have (in that order):
> > >
> > > 1. Familiarity with how to make a Debian package or a willingless to learn
> > > it.
> > >
> > > 2. Familiarity with RPM SPECS. I maintain the RedHat package, and he could
> > > build the Debian based on its SPEC.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > Can't hurt but no real need for that.
> >
>
> Actually, there is one. I maintain the RPM SPEC, and I would like the
> debian package to correspond to it.
>
> > In the meantime one might _try_ alien:
> >
> > Package: alien
> > Priority: optional
> > Section: admin
> > Installed-Size: 181
> > Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
> > Architecture: all
> > Version: 7.22
> > Depends: debhelper (>= 3), perl, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio
> > Suggests: patch, bzip2
> > Filename: pool/main/a/alien/alien_7.22_all.deb
> > Size: 111874
> > MD5sum: 300ba678067a28af44a8ca6626545104
> > Description: Install Red Hat, Stampede, and Slackware Packages with dpkg.
> > Alien allows you to convert Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into
> > Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.
> > .
> > It can also convert into Slackware, Red Hat, and Stampede packages.
> > .
> > This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.
> >
>
> I also want to have an source Debian package.
>
> But in any case, I don't know how trustworthy is alien, but I'll try it
> anyways.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shlomi Fish
>
> >
> > Yet I never used alien myself, which is why I can not tell how good it is
> > for your specific task.
> > --
> >
> > Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>
> >
> > Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me?
> > Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when?
> > (Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14)
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Shlomi Fish shlomif@t2.technion.ac.il
> Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/
> Home E-mail: shlomif@techie.com
>
> A more experienced programmer does not make less bugs. He just realizes
> what went wrong more quickly.
>
--
Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>
Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me?
Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when?
(Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14)
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