(My OCD kicked in today...)
Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing
periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription.
I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly
long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions.
I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I
succeeded).
Some specifics worth mentioning:
* cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not
mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the
description.
* ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the
"exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis
at the end of description.
* nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that
doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing
the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that
makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from
nixos.org).
* Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions
is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't
contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description
either.
Update julia and some of its dependencies
Split PCRE because a lot of packages depend on it and I am not sure we
want to test them in a hurry (and Julia specifies exact version).
We saw a crash in many computers, in the octave check phase, where octave crashed.
It was due to atlas being built for AMD Family 10h, which has a special SSE
trick that others computer don't have.
For x86_64, atlas is for K7. And for i686, PII.
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build machine because that feature offsets the performance timings. We ignore
that check, however, because with binaries being pre-built on Hydra those
timings aren't accurate for the local machine in the first place. The build log
might show something such as the following:
| It appears you have cpu throttling enabled, which makes timings
| unreliable and an ATLAS install nonsensical. Aborting.
| See ATLAS/INSTALL.txt for further information
| Ignoring CPU throttling by user override!
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Linking octave with clapack did not work.
I updated lapack, and additionally I build it with atlas, instead of blas. That should give
better performance. I don't know if atlas builds everywhere though.
On the other hand, maybe some programs linking with liblapack will fail. We'll have to check
the hydra reports.
I plan to remove clapack; liblapack provides a C interface too.
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It's not entirely clear whether BLAS is in the public domain, but according to
<87636orixx.fsf@gnu.org> Debian did classify it that way, and the license text
sure feels like the authors intend the package to be in the public domain. So
here we are.
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