On 09/04/16 18:31, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Tomasz, > > On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 04:47:35PM +0200, Tomasz Buchert wrote: > > > > the only reason is that it doesn't build on most architectures. The > > upstream devel version build, I think, on other archs, but it hasn't > > been released yet. I've asked the upstream author to release a new > > version, but unfortunately without any success. Hi Andreas, > That's a bit sad but unfortunately we have several other packages where > this is the case and IMHO that's not a urgent reason to keep a package > in experimental. Ok. > > So, what I can do is to release libsdsl to only limited number of > > archs (amd64, arm64, ppc64el, s390x) and then in the future I would > > extend this list. This will obviously limit the architectures that > > any reverse dependency will build on. > > > > What do you think? > > This would be really helpful for my plan since I have a package that > depends from this lib and I would like to move this to main (even want > to create a backport). So if you would upload to unstable this would > be really welcome. I've just done it. The package is uploaded under the umbrella of debian-science although I'm not yet a member myself. I requested membership and will move the git repository when I'll have necessary rights. > Moreover I would consider the package a sensible target for the Debian > Science team - it would be great if you could move it to Debian Science > Git and use > "Debian Science Team <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>" > as maintainer. Done. > As a side effect this would simplify contributions to the package - I > noticed that I was not able to commit to the repository (which is > strange since I usually do not have an problems to commit to > collab-maint. That's weird. What kind of errors you get? > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de Cheers, Tomasz
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