Re: Bug#936924: Moving libsvm to Debian Science team
Andreas, what are you doing?
On 2019-12-25 07:52, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 10:39:55AM -0500, Chen-Tse Tsai wrote:
>> I just submitted a PR for dropping python2 dependencies:
>> https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/libsvm/merge_requests/1
>>
>> Any comment is appreciated. I'll be working on upgrading to new upstream.
>
> Looks very good! I injected the patch by Helmut Grohne (#862234) as well.
24 files changed, but debian/changelog only contains two entries.
Nothing about changes to debhelper compat level, patches, etc. It would
have been far more helpful to Chen-Tse (and thus to the team) to supply
feedback on this.
Looking at Salsa, you also imported the new upstream version 3.24 an
hour ago, something that Chen-Tse said just before that he would be
working on? Is he wasting his time now?
Furthermore, I indicated previously that after 3 years, we will almost
certainly need a transition (upstream's versioning does not reflect
SOVER. We arrived at liblinear4 from liblinear1 entirely from Debian
builds discovering backwards-incompatible changes). Did you check this
before updating to 3.24?
Can you please not rush things like this? This package has been sitting
there for 3 years, a few Christmas Holiday days more or less will not
make a difference. I (who happens to maintain another package by the
same upstream) offered to help from the 27th; this could have waited
until then and would have profited from doing so.
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