Re: RFC: Tensorflow 2.5.2 packaging

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

Hi Felix,

On 03.03.22 17:36, Moessbauer, Felix wrote:
> Hi Steffen,
>
> > I had a look and liked them. Once salsa.debian.org is back, is there a
> > chance you would maintain these in Debian? I happily help with sponsoring.
> Yesterday I started uploading the first patches to salsa.
>
> Regarding the new packages (pasta, opt-einsum):
> I'm happy to contribute the initial debianization, but cannot take over the maintenance.
> My hope is that we get most of that into upstream Debian, so ideally the community (and the Debian-ai team) take over.
>
> Anyways, I'm willing to assist in improving the packaging of tensorflow and it's dependencies.
> But I also want to be open and not promise something I cannot keep.

That is just fine. It is what team maintenance was invented for.

The other thingy is that if you have at least Debian Maintainer status
with Debian, you can update those packages without anyone's assistance.
That way you could also depend on the regular Debian a bit more.

Best,
Steffen

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