Re: Bug#936924: Moving libsvm to Debian Science team
Hi Chen-Tse,
thanks for you quick response.
On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 09:48:14AM -0500, Chen-Tse Tsai wrote:
> Hi, Andreas,
>
> I agree with your suggestions. Thanks for putting it on salsa!
Thanks for confirming.
> Should I investigate dropping python2? I can spend some time this week on
> this. But I may need help with debian stuff.
What exact help do you need? Do you have a login on Salsa? We could
add you to science-team to grant you commit permissions. I admit I have
not yet looked into the packaging - just realised that its cdbs which is
unfortunate since it would not eliminate the Python2 dependency fully.
Kind regards
Andreas.
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 7:39 AM Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 08:28:57AM +0000, Mo Zhou wrote:
> > > I second this proposal, and the same for src:liblinear.
> >
> > That's done as I wrote.
> >
> > > These are high popcon packages, dependencies for a number of other
> > > packages. They should be team maintained to unblock important fixes.
> >
> > To push a bit I just commited
> >
> > https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/libsvm
> >
> > Last maintainer upload was more than 3 years ago, 2 NMUs inbetween,
> > package is lagging behind upstream. Anybody is kindly invited to adapt
> > the packaging (I think we should really get rid of cdbs since this in
> > turn is Python2) and proceed from here.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> >
> > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 08:35:28AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > > Hi Chen-Tse,
> > > >
> > > > I'm maintaining a package that depends from libsvm. Due to bug #936924
> > > > that did not received any response since August it is in danger to be
> > > > removed from testing so I'm interested that this bug will be fixed.
> > > > When looking at the package I realised that while it would fit into
> > > > Debian Science team scope it is not team maintained nor is there any
> > > > repository in Salsa. That's why I have the following suggestion:
> > > >
> > > > 1. I create a repository on Salsa
> > > > 2. Move the package to Debian Science team maintenance
> > > > and add you as Uploader
> > > > 3. Drop Python2 package and close bug #936924
> > > > 4. May be migrate packaging from cdbs to dh
> > > >
> > > > If I do not hear from you until Monday I assume you agree with this
> > > > plan and will do so.
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards
> > > >
> > > > Andreas.
> > > >
> > > > PS: @Christian: I noticed that you and Chen-Tse are maintaining
> > > > liblinear. I have just removed Python2 package and reassigned
> > > > #936889 to ftp.debian.org to make sure python-liblinear will be
> > > > removed. Thus libsvm can be dealt as suggested.
> > > >
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> > > >
> > >
> > >
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