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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