Bug#813019: transition: nfft 3.3

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

On 02/02/16 18:00, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 28/01/16 15:47, Ghislain Antony Vaillant wrote:
> > Package: release.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > Usertags: transition
> >
> > Dear Release Team,
> >
> > I would like to request a transition for the latest version of nfft from
> > experimental to unstable.
> >
> > Some API breaking changes were introduced from in version 3.3.0 and current
> > rdeps of nfft will require appropriate patching. The following bugs have been
> > filed with severity important:
> >
> >    * pynfft: #812997
> >    * yorick-ynfft: #812995
> >
> > Let me know if further action is required on my end. I intend to fix pynfft,
> > since I am the personal maintainer and upstream author of the package.
>
> Are there patches for yorick-ynfft, or what's the plan for that?
>
> Cheers,
> Emilio

I did try to implement a fix for yorick-nfft based on my knowledge of
the API changes in nfft, but its test suite still fails for some reason.
I won't have time to investigate further, so it would be up to the
maintainer of yorick-nfft to finish the job. I believe he is also the
upstream developer.

Regarding pynfft, I am currently working on a different implementation
using cffi instead of Cython and could end-up dropping support of the
package both upstream and downstream altogether, once the new
implementation is out. I am happy to provide a patch for the current
pynfft package present in the archive if that can help.

Ghis