Comments regarding tensorflow_2.0.0-1_amd64.changes

[M. Zhou]

Eigen3 is used in the core math part of tensorflow. I have limited energy
to patch these parts from time to time whenever eigen3 gets updated. I
dislike introducing burden to myself.

Please reject it so I can get rid of this burden permanently.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 04:26 Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name> wrote:

> Hello Mo,
>
> On Mon 02 Mar 2020 at 01:27AM +00, M. Zhou wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Thanks.  If you don't expect any other packages to use it soon, then it
> would be okay to embed it.
>
> > 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.
>
> In this case I don't see why tensorflow should get a special exception
> -- typically we would not include in Debian something which could not be
> made to build against our regular version of a library.  (Policy 4.13
> and longstanding practice)
>
> I don't see how the fact it's a headers-only library makes a difference
> here.
>
> --
> Sean Whitton
>
-- 
Best,
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