Could Debian Perl team take over PDL?

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 06/03/2016 10:07 PM, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 12:02:32PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> I've got a request from PDL upstream who fully correctly noticed that
>> PDL is not properly maintained inside Debian.  Since I once did some
>> ad-hoc fixes Upstream CCed me whether I could do something as Debian
>> Science team member.  I had a look and updated Git[1] a bit but I
>> noticed that it is way better if some Perl programmer could have a look.
>> I admit that the patches are more than the small time cycles I would be
>> able to spent into this would permit me to do.
>>
>> I'd be really happy if Debian Perl team could take over maintenance
>> of this package.
> 
> Thanks for the note. I'm adding debian-perl to the recipient list,
> that's a bit better for discussions than the pkg-perl-maintainers one.
> 
> PDL does seem to fit well in the pkg-perl domain so I think that should
> be fine. It clearly needs some work (there are old Debian patches that
> have little documentation or anything) and I can't promise any schedule,
> but I'll try to look at it. Help is welcome of course.
> 
> I see Henning is still listed as the Maintainer for libpdl-io-hdf5-perl
> and libpdl-netcdf-perl. Are those up for adoption too?

I assume they are up for adaption too. libpdl-netcdf-perl hasn't seen
any activity since I NMUed it for the netcdf transition last October.

PDL and its related packages are reverse dependencies of several
packages maintained by the Debian GIS team, I can probably help get PDL
back into shape within the Perl team too (no promises either).

Kind Regards,

Bas

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