Bug#813019: transition: nfft 3.3
Control: tags -1 confirmed
On 02/02/16 19:08, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> 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.
Maybe you could send your (incomplete) patch to the bug then?
> 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.
Since there are no collisions with other transitions, I guess you can go ahead.
Cheers,
Emilio
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