[Debian-pan-maintainers] Napari

[Neil Williams]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 at 12:51, Emmanuel FARHI
<emmanuel.farhi at synchrotron-soleil.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi Neil,
>
> That's good to look into Napari, which I understand represents quite an involvement.
>
> Before you start this process, which will come in time, I suggest you first look into:
>
> looktxt which is probably simple to package. Build is done with 'export NEXUS_NAPI="-I/usr/include/nexus -DUSE_NEXUS -lNeXus" ; make' and requires the 'libnexus-dev' package.

It confused me initially that
https://salsa.debian.org/farhi-guest/looktxt/-/blob/master/Makefile
does not match https://github.com/farhi/looktxt/blob/master/Makefile -
the NEXUS_NAPI support is missing, so the compiled binary does not
make
use of libnexus.

Could you arrange a new git tag for looktxt in GitHub to include the
changes from 7th May 2020 please? The v1.4 git tag is from 25th April
2020 at 299b7d0 but master is 9 commits ahead at 3d8f583 from Feb
2022.

I'll move the packaging in Salsa to the science-team and update it.

I'll file the ITP bug in the meantime.

> cif2hkl can also be considered, however it is part of 'mccode' which is already in the pipe (by Roland Mas). Build is simple, so if you estimate it can be packaed as an independent software, go for it. Will then be removed from the mccode deb.
> reconsider the status of 'aprpes','mpes', and 'bokeh' and even perhaps 'orange/quasar' now that many dependency packages have been pushed on our side. Perhaps what seemed too much an effort a year ago now looks within reach.

I'll have a look at those too.

> We are in the process at SOLEIL to 'secure' our funding over a few years for the packaging work you perform. So I'm quite confident the Napari stack can be pushed in time for Debian 12, even though it may require about a month from now to actually be able for us to buy more hours. No doubt we shall have fresh meat for you to eat.
>
> Cheers, Emmanuel.
>
> Le 22/03/2022 à 13:28, Neil Williams a écrit :
>
> Hi Emmanuel,
>
> XrayLarch is still progressing - waiting for the FEFF support to clear NEW.
> BioXtas-RAW has now also been added to NEW.
>
> In the README, one of the next packages is Napari, multi-dimensional
> image viewer for Python.
>
> https://github.com/napari/napari
>
> I've had a quick look at Napari and there is a bit of a chain in the
> dependencies that will also need to be packaged:
>
> Napari needs the following NEW packages:
> - cachey
> - magicgui
> - napari-plugin-engine
> - superqt
> - npe2
> - napari-console
> - napari-svg
>
> In turn, magicgui and npe2 require psygnal. It is possible that there
> are some others, depending on what is required to get some kind of
> testing running on some of these packages.
>
> I just wanted to make sure you were aware because getting Napari into
> Debian is going to mean first packaging this entire chain. This will
> use up all the remaining hours and likely spill over into another
> chunk of time. If the work starts soon then the chain can probably
> clear NEW in time for napari to be available in the next stable
> release, Debian 12 bookworm.
>
> Before I start on napari, are you OK with using your current hours in this way?
>
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