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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Roland,

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 02:28:51PM +0200, Roland 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 we would ship outdated software with Buster.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 ...

Any progress with this?  Should we open a "New version available" bug
report to track this?
 
>     >> 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.

Good.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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

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