[Monotone-devel] Re: Debian sources for building monotone

[Faheem Mitha]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 01:20:50 -0500, graydon hoare <address@hidden> wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:37:06AM +0000, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>>>Would it be possible to have the Debian sources for builing monotone
>>>available? That would be more flexible. The binary version of monotone
>>>on the monotone web site has dependencies which are not currently in
>>>testing or unstable.
>> 
>> 
>> I thought the binary version of monotone on the website wasn't supposed
>> to have any dependencies other than libc.  Has this changed?
>
> the debian package is dynamically linked against the system libraries, 
> including libc, popt, pthreads, and (alas) boost. I might change this 
> back to static now that I have this configure flag for semi-static 
> builds, not sure. I don't know how much debian as an organization will 
> want to enforce dynamic linking, and I'd someday like to get monotone 
> into debian main.

There is an ITP for monotone in existence. But of course that does not
mean the package in going to appear in Debian anytime soon.

> at this point, my whole world of file distribution (savannah, venge.net, 
> etc.) have either broken, been broken into, or fallen off the net, so 

Sorry to hear that. It has been a rough month for free software servers.

> I'll have to ask you to sit tight and wait. you can probably dig the 
> debian control files out of our CVS server or monotone depot if and when 
> they become accessible, and do a build from there.

I downloaded the sources but there was (perhaps unsurprisingly) no
Debian-specific stuff in there. I could make up my own package without
too much trouble but I am lazy.

So your CVS repo is not currently accessible then? What are you
currently working with?

I'll consider getting the stuff off snapshot.debian.net for the moment
and going with your binary.

BTW, is such a tight dependence on boost really necessary?

Take care.

                                                      Faheem.