Hi Benda, For now I prefer to leave our organisational setup as is, since we can easily install casacore and the data by just adding the launchpad PPA to a system. Also I don't really see a proper solution to the problematic casacore-data package that needs some sort of supervised upgrading at regular intervals. But nobody at astron is able to give a sane answer to what and how. I tried, I really tried to get this information but I have other things to do also. greetings, - Gijs On 22-06-14 10:18, heroxbd@gentoo.org wrote: > Hey Gijs, > > Gijs Molenaar <gijs@pythonic.nl> writes: > >>>> you can give me access to your maintenance tree, but I don't know if >>>> I'll do much - since we already have our solution for the short term. >>> >>> Alright, so I won't give you the access this time. Ole and I was >>> discussing about moving the packaging repo back to alioth. You are >>> welcomed to join at that time. It'll happen within a month. > > I have moved to casacore pkg repo under the umbrella of debian-astro > project. > > https://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-astro/ > > I see you are already in the member list, so access granted. > > Would you like to merge the repos into it also? > > https://github.com/ska-sa/casacore-debian could mostly be > superseded by Ole's finer partition of sub-packages, IMHO. > > > For https://github.com/ska-sa/casacore-data-debian, > >>>> One of the problems is the measures data package, which I name >>>> casacore-data. There doesn't seem to be a central place where this data >>>> is available in a consistent and versioned way. What we do now is just >>>> update the package manually from time to time. I'm curious what your >>>> approach is for tacking this problem. >>> >>> I am also worried about this piece of data. And what license is it? >>> (hey, is it really LGPL?[2])I couldn't find any statements in the >>> tarball. For packaging we may provide a script for the users to download >>> by themselves, like how we dealt with the proprietary drivers in Debian. >> >> I’m not sure, but I believe I asked it and they said that. But I can’t >> find the email. > > So let's pack it LGPL and put it into debian-astro, too? > >>> Another problem is that casacore needs to use this piece of data for its >>> unittests, which is suspected to fail from the updates of measures >>> data[1]. I have no idea right now. >> >> I prefer the packaged solution, I don’t trust the astron FTP >> server. I’ve been in contact with the maintainers of the tarball, but >> that discussion got sort of stuck also. They can’t really promis much. >> >> I think it is important that there is a good and trusted measures_data >> archive somewhere, always, but that seems to be quite difficult. > > No problem. Once we get it packaged, the world will mirror it for us :) > > PS, casacore-1.7 gets release, and 2.0 soon > > http://code.google.com/p/casacore/issues/detail?id=58#c5 > > Cheers, > Benda >
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