Could Debian Perl team take over PDL?

[Chris Marshall]

Hi-

I'm not that familiar with the Debian side of things
but am standing up a Debian system this weekend and
hoping to take a look at updating the previous work
by Henning Glawe.  If you have any PDL specific questions,
please feel free to email me directly.

--Chris
   (PDL-2.016 release manager)


On 6/3/2016 16:55, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> 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
>