pplacer status (Was: Re: [RFH] aeonbits-owner and capsule-maven-nextflow)

[Pierre Gruet <pgt@debian.org>]

Hi all,

Le 22/12/2022 à 17:17, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> Am Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 08:55:27PM +0530 schrieb Nilesh Patra:
> > I see three options:
> >
> > 1. Revert mcl to past version
>
> > From a user base point of view I do not consider this a good option.
>   
> > 2. Wait for upstream reaction on ocaml support for mcl -- they said someone
> > might be interested to look into it but the wait time is not definite
>
> I admit I'm not really optimistic that this will happen right in time
> but may be we can support backports later.
>
> > 3. Disable build time tests which use pplacer and move
> > the depends on pplacer to suggests; mention in README.Debian to get pplacer
> > from github or something similar
>
> This seems to be a good alternative.

Andreas and I had a discussion during the ongoing sprint, we think it is 
better to keep pplacer out of testing as there are reverse dependencies, 
of which users could also be annoyed by a manual work to get pplacer 
from github.

Let's backport it later if something positive happens upstream on this side.

> Kind regards
>      Andreas.

Bye,

--
Pierre

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