Debian Bug report logs - #776640
dmtcp: Please include plugins from the source package

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Afif Elghraoui <afif.elghraoui@openmailbox.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dmtcp: Please include plugins from the source package

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 03:45:05 -0800

Package: dmtcp
Version: 2.3.1-6
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Many thanks for your package. I (privately backported and) installed
this version from testing to use dmtcp with the plugins and didn't find 
them.
It looks like the plugins in the source archive's contrib/ directory are
not built or installed by any binary package produced by the dmtcp
source package.

A user's workaround would be to download the plugin sources separately and
build them manually for use with this package.

Many thanks and regards,
Afif



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ar_SA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ar_SA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dmtcp depends on:
ii  libc6       2.13-38+deb7u7
ii  libgcc1     1:4.7.2-5
ii  libstdc++6  4.7.2-5

dmtcp recommends no packages.

dmtcp suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Gene Cooperman <gene@ccs.neu.edu>

To: Afif Elghraoui <afif.elghraoui@openmailbox.org>, 776640@bugs.debian.org

Cc: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#776640: dmtcp: Please include plugins from the source package

Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 16:16:16 -0500

Hi Afif,
    Sorry for the delay in writing back.  We talked about your request.
We're hesitant to package the plugins in the _ contrib/ _ directory,
because those are contributed by various people, and we're not yet
ready to guarantee our normal standards for those plugins.
    So, at this stage, I'm afraid the best that we can recommend is what
you suggested:
> A user's workaround would be to download the plugin sources separately and
> build them manually for use with this package.

However, please do continue to communicate to us with suggestions.
The feedback is quite valuable for us.

Best wishes,
- Gene

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 03:45:05AM -0800, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> Package: dmtcp
> Version: 2.3.1-6
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Many thanks for your package. I (privately backported and) installed
> this version from testing to use dmtcp with the plugins and didn't
> find them.
> It looks like the plugins in the source archive's contrib/ directory are
> not built or installed by any binary package produced by the dmtcp
> source package.
> 
> A user's workaround would be to download the plugin sources separately and
> build them manually for use with this package.
> 
> Many thanks and regards,
> Afif
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.8
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'),
> (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=ar_SA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ar_SA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages dmtcp depends on:
> ii  libc6       2.13-38+deb7u7
> ii  libgcc1     1:4.7.2-5
> ii  libstdc++6  4.7.2-5
> 
> dmtcp recommends no packages.
> 
> dmtcp suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 

Message #20 received at 776640@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Afif Elghraoui <afif.elghraoui@openmailbox.org>

To: Gene Cooperman <gene@ccs.neu.edu>, 776640@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#776640: dmtcp: Please include plugins from the source package

Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 20:31:53 -0800

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Hello,

On الأربعاء  4 شباط 2015 13:16, Gene Cooperman wrote:
> Hi Afif,
>     Sorry for the delay in writing back.  We talked about your request.

No problem. Thanks for considering

> We're hesitant to package the plugins in the _ contrib/ _ directory,
> because those are contributed by various people, and we're not yet
> ready to guarantee our normal standards for those plugins.
>     So, at this stage, I'm afraid the best that we can recommend is what
> you suggested:
>> > A user's workaround would be to download the plugin sources separately and
>> > build them manually for use with this package.
> However, please do continue to communicate to us with suggestions.
> The feedback is quite valuable for us.

You might alternatively consider doing what the git package does with
its own contrib directory. It puts them in /usr/share/doc/git/contrib
and /usr/share/git-core/contrib, treating them somewhat like example
code. It's not ideal, but it does make them available to the user.

> 
> Best wishes,
> - Gene

Anyway, thanks for clearing up the situation and thanks also for this
package.

Regards,
Afif

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From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 765741-done@bugs.debian.org,765743-done@bugs.debian.org,776640-done@bugs.debian.org,789292-done@bugs.debian.org,868928-done@bugs.debian.org,942993-done@bugs.debian.org,

Cc: dmtcp@packages.debian.org

Subject: Bug#1038817: Removed package(s) from unstable

Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 23:29:11 +0000

Version: 2.6.0-1+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package dmtcp has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1038817

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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