Re: ITP: pgplot-perl -- PGPLOT Perl module
Hi again Gürkan:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Gürkan Sengün wrote:
Hello Carlo
I have no objection to working on this, being the maintainer of
pgplot5. The problem is that there is a bug filed against pgplot5
because it doesn't properly support libpgplot-perl (pgplot-perl or
formerly pgperl) [0]. I have not had any time to figure this out for
the past 8 months unfortunately. Part of the problem is that pgplot5
has a very complex build system and I inherited it from an MIA
maintainer (silly me...).
Hm, the version I used worked just fine for the astronomy physics user I
have built it for. Maybe it was fixed in a later version (2.20)? Could
you check it from here: http://gnu.ethz.ch/debian/pgplot-perl/
The bug was specific to the amd64 architecture only. It always seemed to
build using i386. In any case, the latest version, pgplot5-11, fixes the
problem (thanks Niko!).
I guess i'll have to move it into non-free and rename it to
libpgplot-perl for Debian inclusion... but first I need to find a
sponsor (maybe the perl debian group)
It should be contrib, not non-free, I think. If you put it in the
Debian-Perl repository, I could easily sponsor it. As it stands, I have a
workable package of 2.20 based on the 2.18 pgperl package from the sarge
days. It needs to be converted to gfortran but I would suggest that you
start from the previous version simply because it contains the changelog
from it's initial time in Debian. I will send you the files in a separate
email so you can incorporate it all into your package. You may remove any
reference to what I have done since it was never released.
Cheers,
Carlo
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Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College
Illinois Institute of Technology
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