[Debian-med-packaging] What about new upstream version of relion?

[Roland Fehrenbacher]

>>>>> "A" == Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de> writes:

Hi Andreas,

    A> Hi Roland, On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 02:28:51PM +0200, Roland
    A> Fehrenbacher wrote:
    >>
    >> >> I hope I will get around building the new version in time
    >> >> before the next freeze.
    >>
    A> This would be really nice.  At least I'll upload with a working
    A> watch file which will remember us that some work needs to be
    A> done.
    >>
    >> That's a good idea. Now that the source code is on Github, this
    >> has become feasible (wasn't at the time I originally created it).
    >>
    >> >> The big advantage of the newer versions 2.x + is support for
    >> >> GPUs. To support that will be quite a lot of effort though.
    >>
    A> I can not be of any help here since I have no idea about this
    A> program.  I'd be very happy if you (or one of the other
    A> Uploaders) would take over this effort.  It would be a shame if
    A> we would ship outdated software with Buster.
    >>
    >> Agreed. I'll try hard to get this in ...

    A> Any progress with this?

not yet.

    A> Should we open a "New version available" bug report to track
    A> this?

I have it on my mind and will get it done in time before freeze approaches.

    >> >> Given that we'll have to build against the non-free nvidia
    >> >> stuff for GPU support, will this require the package to move
    >> >> to non-free as well (at least the GPU variants)?
    >>
    A> Packages with free softeare depending from packages in non-free
    A> need to go to contrib.  It would be great if those parts that do
    A> not need the non-free components could stay in main, thought.
    >>
    >> Good, thanks for the pointer. Will make sure that the free stuff
    >> stays in main.

    A> Good.

    A> Kind regards

    A>       Andreas.

    A> PS: Will you consider joining the next Debian Med sprint?

I don't think so. Interest from DebianMed folks for Qlustar is basically
non-existent, so we have shifted our focus ...

Best,

Roland