[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#811500: cpl-plugin-visir: does not work

[Ole Streicher]

Hi Julian,

thank you for the bug report. To check the packaging, I run the unit 
tests that come with the package (hoping that they cover a good part of 
the code), and I think this is a reasonable "minimal effort" to ensure a 
package is working.

Could I ask you to provide a minimal test case that could be used? "Any" 
is a bit vague... Can you make a small test case, maybe using your demo 
data set

ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/visir/visir-demo-reflex-0.1.tar.gz

which I could use? Just the parameters, the SOF, and the expected output 
would be probably enough.

What concerns the removal: When I started to package the pipelines, I 
asked upstream (on cpl-help at eso.org) for opinions, but I never got any 
response, neither positive nor negative, to the packaging. The only 
statement here was your mail in debian-science that these packages are 
"too special", but you then did not answer to my response.

I also recently discussed the topic with Pascal Ballester (upstream 
project head), and he also never mentioned that ESO does not want to 
have the pipelines packaged in Debian.

Therefore, I would ask you to start a discussion on the Debian-Astro 
mailing list about the status of the ESO pipelines, and what the reason 
is why ESO does not want them to be in Debian. You may also invite other 
people from ESO to join the discussion -- we are an open community, and 
therefore we should solve this problem accordingly (if it is really one 
for ESO).

For the swarp problem: I regularly check their web page, the SVN 
repository and the forum to see if there are problems that should be 
solved for the Debian package. Up to now, there is no problem reported, 
except some statements by you that were not supported by a concrete 
example. Could I ask you to report the problem to swarp upstream so that 
they are aware of and that they can fix it? We all would benefit from that.

Best regards

Ole