Hello, fellows of Debian-HPC!
to manage the multitude of software versions on their machines.
For that reason, a recent version of LMOD is an integral part of every software
suite of most HPC machines.
Turns out that Aaron Zauner doesn't have time to take care of LMOD in Debian
anymore, and the version was updated six years ago.
I am taking care of the Debian package for now (right now, unofficially), and
generating a new version as soon as a new release comes from the official
Git Repo. I have it synchronized with lmod's authors, and I'm willing to keep
it from now on.
I am forwarding some email exchange between the interested (or not so
much anymore) parties involved with LMOD.
TLDR: I want to officially adopt LMOD. Here's my github repo with it:
If you can tell me what I need to do to have it accepted from now on, that would be awesome.
Happy holidays,
Alex Strube, Jülich Supercomputing Center.
Hey Alexandre Strube and fellow debian hackers;
[In CC are Christian Hofstädtler - who originally sponsored my package / DM status - for transparency. As well as Lucas Nussbaum, who I probably don't have to introduce to Debian or HPC people. Lucas submitted one of the last version patches, apart from minor fixes to package definitions since. And was also suggesting finding a new maintainer for the package. So far so good on the background.]
As I don't work in HPC at the moment nor need extensive toolchains for eg embedded Dev I don't have the time and resources to test this package the way it deserves. I'm fine with someone from JSC taking over. Please be aware that lmod deps on two lua packages that you will also have to maintain.
I put my Debian sponsor for the package in CC. This topic also came up a few times in the past in mail threads regarding packages and we were looking for someone to take over, so I'm really happy you're interested as lmod is cool software.
Let me know if I can help you in any way going forward.
Thanks,
Aaron
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Hi Aaron,
I would like to adopt LMOD on Debian. I think you know Kenneth Hoste, from UGhent, who wrote this on my behalf to Robert from TACC:
—--Forwarded message-—-—-
Alexandre Strube (in CC with both his work and personal email addresses)
who works as Jülich Supercomputing Centre is willing to take up the role
as maintainer of the Lmod Debian package.
I knew he was annoyed by Lmod not being updated on Ubuntu (see [1]), and
apparently he used to work for Ubuntu a long time ago (2005-2006 era),
so he knows his way around...
I've been chatting with Alexandre about this today in the EasyBuild
Slack, and he already managed to puzzle together what's needed to create
a .deb package for Lmod 8.5.25; see
https://github.com/surak/Lmod/commit/4da188573a0e5de872fa5de155e1f7741890ca4f .
—--End of forwarded message-—-—-
I already have a version of the latest LMOD being generated for Debian Bullseye, so all I need is your blessing.
Please let me know what to do to take over the package on Debian, since it doesn't appear on the "to adopt" list anymore.
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