[zeromq-dev] Debian package / small manpage issue

[Martin Sustrik]

Steven McCoy wrote:
> 2010/1/22 Adrian von Bidder <avbidder at fortytwo.ch 
> <mailto:avbidder at fortytwo.ch>>
> 
>     Ok, thanks a lot for the explanation.  As I've said, since I've got
>     enough
>     on my plate I'll leave that for now despite having a package including a
>     source tarball for a third party project is "a big no-no for upstream
>     packages" as you so nicely said yesterday :-)
> 
>     I've filed Debian #566126 that it would be good to have an openpgm
>     package
>     and will think about this whole issue again when this is available.
> 
> 
> I'm following Chromium integration with distributions as they have 
> similar issues bundling ffmpeg and many other packages.
> 
> The special case here is that OpenPGM 2 isn't released yet and is still 
> a moving target, ZMQ is tied to a specific version at any one time. 
>  It's slowly stabilizing as more ports cleanly build. 

Yes. It's complex. Let's go with the statically linked, 
tarball-delivered OpenPGM for now. Once there's stable Debian package 
available for OpenPGM 2, we can ommit it from 0MQ.

Martin