Request for review: glpk

[Quentin Spencer]

GLPK (Gnu Linear Programming Kit) is a library for solving linear 
programming (LP) problems. This is used by the development (2.9.x) and 
the upcoming 3.0 versions of octave. For more information about the 
library, see:
http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html

My SRPM can be found here:
http://webpages.charter.net/qspencer/octave/glpk-4.8-1.src.rpm

One note about this package. The upstream sources do not provide for 
building shared libraries. The maintainer has seemed somewhat 
unresponsive to requests on the mailing list for this (and a lot of 
other things), and I don't really have time or interest in maintaining 
patches separate from the sources, so for now this is a static-only 
library. I have put everything in glpk-devel, with the intention of 
creating a glpk package in the future if shared libs are supported. This 
library is not likely to be used by many applications, so for now I 
don't see this as a problem.

-Quentin