On 10/28/20 3:31 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Aisha,
>
> Aisha Tammy wrote on Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 01:12:15PM -0400:
>
>> Here is a preliminary version update of math/lapack to 3.9.0
>> with some patches from debian and gentoo.
>
> While FORTAN used to be my favourite language until about 1998,
> i got out of the habit of using it after that, so i can't really
> comment on the port in general, but ...
>
>> Current caveats
>> (1) I've had to remove the man pages installation.
>
> 1. Why?
>
> In general, if a major change is needed when updating a port,
> it is useful to mention the reason.
>
>
> 2. Isn't that a blocker?
>
> For a programming library, having section 3 documentation seems
> crucial to me. What is the point of an undocumented public API?
>
> Yes, i am aware that lapack is among the last 20 or so ports that
> require USE_GROFF, and among the worst handful of these because the
> man(7) code is both unusually problematic from a qualitative
> standpoint (.ti nested inside .TP head, ...) and also hard to handle
> from a perspective of quantity - the library is so large that even
> reviewing the manual pages regarding which problems are contained
> in them isn't easy.
>
> But none of that should be your problem, nor should it prevent
> formatting the manual pages with groff and installing them.
>
> Yours,
> Ingo
>
That's fair. I removed them as it seemed like none of the other
distributions are installing them in this package.
Some of them have a separate man-pages packages for lapack.
Other reason was that the man pages haven't been updated from 2007.
So I am also not sure if they are the most up to date.
But as you said, having them is better than not having them.
I can try to add them back but it might take some more time.
Aisha
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