hi Andreas, thanks for clarifying. I'll take care of packaging of v0.9 just released asap. I'll remove mayavi from Build-Depends to be safe.
Alex On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > Hi Alexandre, > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 09:32:39AM +0200, Alexandre Gramfort wrote: >> >> I don't know what I can do about mayavi2 packaging. > > That's simple: Maintain the package which is currently unmaintained. :-) > >> To avoid removing >> python-mne from debian-science > > To clarify the terminology: python-mne is not removed from Debian > Science. The package is removed from Debian testing to ensure that > testing remains in an always releasable state. I expect mayavi2 to be > fixed in a decent time frame before the next freeze which will be not > before one year (to my naïve estimation). > >> one option is to remove it from depends >> as mayavi2 is a weak dependency of python-mne. 95% of python-mne >> works fine without mayavi. >> >> what do you think? > > I think the problem is the Build-Depends. If python-mne does not > need this Build-Dependency than it should be removed in any case. > > Otherwise it might not harm to widen your scope and try to help fixing > the problem in mayavi2. I honestly think that we should behave as > better team players and not work on single packages only (which is a > general statement and not directly addressed to you Alexandre). > > To prove my point I have made the according team metrics graph. See > here for Debian Med > > http://blends.debian.net/liststats/maintainer_per_package_debian-med.png > > which could be better and Debian Science > > > http://blends.debian.net/liststats/maintainer_per_package_debian-science.png > > which *should* be way better. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
