Re: indexing expression performance

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2009/1/16 Thomas Weber <address@hidden>:
> Am Freitag, den 16.01.2009, 10:01 +0100 schrieb Jaroslav Hajek:
>> Btw., I see Debian has a pretty complete octave3.0 package.
>> How hard would be packaging the qrupdate library for Debian?
>> (https://sourceforge.net/projects/qrupdate).
>
> Good question. I don't have much experience with packaging libraries.
> The biggest problem are incompatible changes to the library's interface,
> which means a proper SONAME.
>
> It's somewhat complicated by the fact that the library uses Fortran. For
> C/C++, you have knowledgable people at every corner. How much do you
> expect the library to change in the future?

Well, we have some docs... I'm sure you've found them already:

      http://packages.debian.org/sid/libpkg-guide

But beware

      http://bugs.debian.org/libpkg-guide

I didn't quite follow the discussion, so please tell me again why it's
desirable to package this library?

- Jordi G. H.