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Re: Re: Bug#707268: Bug#725957: gnudatalanguage and plplot not migrating



Hi Andrew,

Andrew Ross a écrit , Le 26/03/2014 23:51:
> 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. 

Swig 2.0.12 hit unstable two months ago. Is there still something
blocking the upload of plplot 5.10.0?

Thanks in advance,

_g.

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