Comments regarding tensorflow_2.0.0-1_amd64.changes

[M. Zhou]

Besides, eigen3 is a header-only library. not a shared one.

On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 01:27, M. Zhou <cdluminate at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sean,
>
> There are two embedded source tarballs:
> 1. abseil-cpp: the upstream (google) development model makes
>    it unsuitable for debian packaging. This is a mandatory
>    dependency of tensorflow. hence the embedded tarball.
> 2. eigen3: debian ships another version of this package. However,
>    tensorflow is tightly coupled with a specific snapshot version
>    by upstream. building against debian's eigen3 will result in
>    nothing but FTBFS. Patching tensorflow to fix the insane amount
>    of API breaks could be impractical as currently there is only
>    one person working on this stuff.
>
>
>
> On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 15:59, Sean Whitton <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Mo,
>>
>> I'm not comfortable with the debian/embedded/ tarballs especially
>> since one of them is already in the archive as a shlib.  I don't see
>> why tensorflow should get a special exception to the idea that we have
>> only one copy of each shlib in the archive except where needed to
>> handle transitions.
>>
>> I'm not REJECTing this right now because I'd like to get input from
>> other ftpteam members, but I wanted to write to you to give you a
>> chance to explain why tensorflow might be a special case.
>>
>> --
>> Sean Whitton
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Best,
>


-- 
Best,
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