[Bug 476398] Review Request: eclib - A Library for Doing Computations on Elliptic Curves

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--- Comment #25 from Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>  2009-03-19 18:04:26 EDT ---
Let's not get off topic on this bug, but I would appreciate it if you wouldn't
be so quick to attack in the future. I will try to be less arrogant.

(In reply to comment #24)
> A failing "make check" ought to raise an alarm bell in a packager's head. A
> packager should really look into it and report it upstream, too.

In the few sources that I have packaged that provided tests, few of them pass.
This is not a problem with the packaging, but rather that upstream doesn't
bother keeping their tests passing. Generally upstream will fix them on its own
if it wants to, or ignore my reports about it being broken if they don't want
to. So I don't feel especially motivated to contact them about it.

> 3.p7.fc10 is _much_ better, except that typically upstream
> developers ought to participate in the decision on what SONAMEs and versions to
> choose. librankntl.so.20080310 is an interesting approach, but it is different
> than upstream's releases and also different than all other distributions, for
> example.  

I am glad to hear it's better. I feel like we should probably include the p7
tag into the SONAME as well. What do you think? My rationale for
librankntl.so.20080310 is Hans' post on f-d-l thread about this bug
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/107950). I don't know
if there is a way we can be compatible with all other distributions; as I've
said before this library has exactly one user (Sage), and upstream has stopped
even releasing independent tarballs (instead, they release .spkgs in Sage).

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