Re: Bug#707268: Bug#725957: gnudatalanguage and plplot not migrating
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 06:51:17PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> Le 26/03/2014 00:52, Axel Beckert a écrit :
> > forwarded 725957 http://sourceforge.net/p/gnudatalanguage/bugs/594/
> > kthxbye
> >
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> > Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> >> Do you need help fixing plplot and gnudatalanguage so they can reach
> >> testing?
> >
> > As documented in the BTS I've forwarded the FTBFS to Sylwester Arabas
> > (the one of the GDL upstream devs I had most contact with) by e-mail
> > after I noticed them, but got no reply so far. He though opened an
> > issue at their tracker just an hour ago:
> > http://sourceforge.net/p/gnudatalanguage/bugs/594/
>
> That's because I had been talking with a colleague who is also involved
> upstream. I decided to offer my help here while he pinged Sylwester.
>
> >> I think it would make sense to maintain them in a team, either
> >> debian-science (CC:) or debian-astro.
> >
> > I'm happy if someone else would help keeping GDL in Debian in shape or
> > even wants to take over maintainership completely. We both, Gürkan and
> > me, only maintain GDL in Debian because we need it at work. We don't
> > use it ourselves.
>
> I don't mean to hijack your package. However, it would make sense for me
> to get involved since I can meet upstream face to face anytime.
>
> > With regards to plplot: I reviewed it for sponsoring and there's a
> > package at https://mentors.debian.net/package/plplot -- it's mostly
> > fine with one exception, it should have version 5.9.10-1, not version
> > 5.9.10-2. The older 5.9.10-1 package at the same location has more
> > issues and fixing them resulted in the 5.9.10-2 upload to mentors.
>
> I'll see if I can help for plplot and gdl on the short term, and we'll
> see later about adoption and team maintenance.
Unfortunately the latest release of octave (3.8) breaks swig support which in
turn breaks octave. We fixed this upstream and I have packages for the
newest plplot release 5.10.0 which work, but they in turn rely on the
latest release of swig (2.0.12), which hasn't yet made it into unstable. This
is a little bit frustrating as we've been waiting a while now to get plplot
back into debian. There is an open bug against swig regarding this.
The required debian/ files are available in the upstream plplot svn repo.
Copy this directory on top of an unpacked 5.10.0 source release and you
should be ready to go. Once swig is updated I'll upload packages to
mentors.debian.net. At that stage I'd be happy for some help to uploading
to unstable.
Andrew
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