Aw: Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Aw: Re: Packaging of Apache Arrow - where are we?

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

Hello,

> Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. August 2025 um 19:24
> Von: "Diane Trout" <diane@ghic.org>
> An: "Steffen Möller" <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>, debian-science@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Re: Aw: Aw: Re: Packaging of Apache Arrow - where are we?
>
> On Tue, 2025-08-26 at 16:22 +0000, Steffen Möller wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On a sidenote, when linking the R package (from CRAN with the tools
> > subdir
> > removed) against the arrow C++ library then I get a link error wrt
> > some
> > Hive objects. Are there some files omitted from building the library?
> 
> I haven't had a chance to investigate why but I did notice lintian said
> several library packages were empty.
> 
> When I tried to do an update on the package earlier it seems like
> upstream was fond of moving files around and adding and removing
> libraries to the overall archive.
> 
> The other common lintian warninings were about needing symbols files
> and the python libraries were missing the hardening build flags.
> 

We now have an R package that can be loaded from within an R shell,
have not tried it, though.

To me it feels like the package is closing in for an upload.
What are you all's feelings about d/copyright?

Best,
Steffen