cuneiform team mailing list archive

["Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 09:21 -0400, Speedy Chair wrote:

> Is this status from a lack of interest in a Debian / Ubuntu package or
> a deeper technical reason?  

I would say the main reason why the packages become orphaned is the lack
of time of the original maintainer.

> When you talk about maintenance of a package, can the maintenance
> responsibilities be broken down between the actual code and packaging
> responsibilities?

Yes.

> If cuneiform is compiled and installed and a package is created with the 
> ImageMagick++ libraries present, what will happen if someone installs it on 
> another computer without the libraries?  Does it fall back to the standard 
> behavior?

It will pull libmagick++ automatically upon installation. In the case if
cuneiform is dynamically linked against libmagick++ and it does not find
it at run time it will just bail out and refuse to run at all.
 
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev