Fwd: PDL package update request (who is appropriate POC?)

[Chris Marshall]

Thanks for the quick response, Andreas.

We're planning a new PDL-2.016 release by the end of
May but as far as Debian packaging goes, nothing will
change from PDL-2.015 to PDL-2.16 compared to the
current debian/ directory in the PDL distribution.

I reviewed the contents of that folder and it seems
to have the pieces needed to package things for a
Debian release but I'm not running on a Debian system
and there are no instructions for the build/release
process.

The PDL-2.016 release candidate 1 is available from
CPAN at http://search.cpan.org/~chm/PDL-2.015_001/ and
you can download the tarball from the Download link:

http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CH/CHM/PDL-2.015_001.tar.gz

In the top level of the PDL-2.015_001/ folder which
will result from untar-ing the distribution file you
will see a debian/ folder with the contents from
Henning Glawes previous work.

I'm very willing to help out from the PDL/perl side of
things if you could find an experienced Debian
science maintainer to try things out.  I don't want
to blindly start editing without knowing how things
work.  If we can get the process bootstrapped, I can
see about finding a new maintainer (maybe me if I can
install a Debian unix for development).

Cheers,
Chris


On 5/28/2016 17:35, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 02:31:40PM -0400, Chris Marshall wrote:
>> I saw that you have had activity with the Debian pdl packaging
>> from 15 Jan 2016.  I'm hoping to update the pdl package from
>> the current version PDL-2.007 to the soon to be released
>> PDL-2.016.
>>
>> PDL-2.007 is more than 3 years out of date and is missing some
>> significant and ongoing bug fixes and feature enhancements.
>> Of specific interest is that PDL now support 64bit indexing
>> and can operate with perls built with the long double config
>> option.
>>
>> PDL now builds out of the box on the main perl platforms:
>> linux, mac os x, windows, and bsd.  If there are any issues
>> with packaging we would like to address them.  AFAICT, the
>> problem is lack of an active maintainer.
> I admit that pdl is not very well maintained in Debian.  I moved it to
> Debian Science team maintenance to increase the awareness of more people
> who might potentially care.  You could become a member of the team and
> update the packaging or send us patches we could include.  Please ping
> us (perhaps by CCing me personally since your previous mail did not
> received any answer?) if the new version is released and ready for
> packaging.
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: 	PDL package update and POC
>> Date: 	Thu, 26 May 2016 19:07:58 -0400
>> From: 	Chris Marshall <devel.chm.01 at gmail.com>
>> To: 	debian-science-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Debian-Science-Maintainers,
>>
>> I'm hoping to contact the current pdl package maintainer for debian.
>> The current package is years out of date.  If possible, I would like
>> to update to the current PDL-2.015 or later as there are a very large
>> number of bugs fixed and platform compatibility enhancements.
>>
>> I've tried emailing Henning Glawe but have received no response for
>> a year or more.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Chris
>>