[Bug 472639] Review Request: Scilab - Numerical Analysis toolkit

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--- Comment #14 from D Haley <mycae at yahoo.com>  2008-12-29 03:19:34 EDT ---
SPEC URL: http://dhd.selfip.com/427e/scilab-5.0.3-1.spec
SRPM URL: http://dhd.selfip.com/427e/scilab-5.0.3-1.fc10.src.rpm

* Mon Dec 29 2008 <mycae(a!t)yahoo.com> 5.0.3-1
- Update to new scilab release (5.0.3)
- Add devel section for .h files
- Disable static libs
- Fix documentation build (added jeuclid-core)
- Fix many rpmlint warnings (devel mainly.)


There are still issues with this, the non-showing graphs still seem to elude
me, even after setting (I believe) the claspath correctly in scilabs
classpath.xml. Nor is the documentation being created correctly (no
/usr/share/scilab/modules/helptools/jar/scilab_en_US_help.jar). However, thanks
to the work of others on the deps for scilab, the help dependencies are now
building appropriately (eg. jeuclid-core).

>Those are debuginfo extracted by rpm. If you have a problem with them , then I
>would suggest that you review how your builsystem is done... thoses are
>expected to build fine and ends in %{name}-debuginfo rpm package.

My understanding of the debug build process is that scilab is meant to be
building all components with debugging symbols enabled. rpmbuild will
subsequently generate a subset of files which have the debugging symbols and
set them aside. These are then stripped using "strip" and reinstated back into
the main package. AFAIK there should not be a separate folder for files with
debugging information as this will distrupt the way that rpmlint operates, as
it will not correctly place the files (say /usr/lib/libscilab.so) with the
version that has debugging symbols, as it will simply insert
/usr/lib/debug/libscilab.so, not replacing as it should.

That said I am certainly not an expert in how rpmbuild operates -- I am
learning as I need.

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