Re: Maintaining a Debian Swarm package

[Karl Sackett]

Thor Sigvaldason writes:
> 
>       I'm a long time lurker on this list who has recently found myself 
> in possession of a bit of ftp space with a Linux oriented company. In an 
> attempt to contribute to the Swarm community, I wonder if anyone would 
> find it useful for me to manage a Debian package of Swarm binaries and/or 
> source code? I believe there is already an .rpm Swarm package, but 
> (IMHO) Debian's open nature and ftp'ble distibution structure might be of 
> some benefit to the Swarm project.
> 
>       If someone else on this list is already maintaining such a 
> package, then I apologize for wasting everybody's bandwidth. If not, I'm 
> happy to process yeah or neah votes via address@hidden In any case, I'll 
> post a summary of results (and an ftp location if the vote swings that 
> way) in a week or two.

I've had Debian packages for Swarm in various stages since last fall.
My work is presently held up by problems configuring libtclobjc -- the
configuration script fails when checking for objc_next_class.  I think
the problem is with the Obj-C patches installed in the Debian gcc
package, but the gcc maintainer and I haven't been able to isolate the
cause.

The beta packages I had worked flawlessly, shared libraries and all.
But I've hit a wall with this libtclobjc problem.

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Karl Sackett                                           address@hidden

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