Sponsoring of packages for the next stable release

[Stephen Sinclair]

Hi Anton,

Thanks, last time I tried to use the salsa pipeline for this package,
it was not possible because the build produced too much log output and
failed for that reason.
It seems that in your attempt, it actually makes it all the way to the
end; I'm actually not clear on what "fails", it actually succeeds
building and testing the package, but ends with,

> Uploading artifacts as "archive" to coordinator... failed
> context=artifacts-uploader error=invalid argument

I have no idea what arguments to what program are invalid here, but it
seems to have to do with the pipeline process and not the package
itself.

https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/siconos/-/jobs/1367137

For the i386 build, it fails unfortunately simply because the machine
runs out of memory.  (The build annoyingly requires upwards of 7 GB of
memory while compiling the SWIG bindings; part of the motivation for
wanting to distribute a pre-compiled package!)  However to be honest I
am not sure siconos works properly on 32-bit architectures anyway.
https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/siconos/-/jobs/1367138

As for other architectures, there is a bug on arm64 that I have been
trying to fix but it is not an easy one.  In the meantime the package
is very useful for x86_64 users, who are in the majority.

regards,
Steve

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 10:36 PM Anton Gladky <gladk at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> I have enabled the salsa-pipeline on siconos package and it seems
> fails to build currently [1]. Could you please take a look and let me know,
> whether it is ready to be uploaded.
>
> Thanks
>
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/siconos/-/pipelines
>
> Anton
>
> Am Mi., 20. Jan. 2021 um 22:46 Uhr schrieb Stephen Sinclair
> <radarsat1 at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > If there still is time, there is a minor version upstream update to
> > the siconos package looking for a sponsor:
> > https://mentors.debian.net/package/siconos/
> >
> >  siconos (4.3.1+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> >  .
> >    * New upstream release.
> >    * Rebase patches:
> >      + Remove upstreamed patch to FindLAPACK.cmake.
> >    * Update policy version 4.5.1.
> >    * Update debhelper version 13.
> >    * Add missing symbols for numerics.
> >    * Change architecture for siconos and siconos-mechanics-tools to all.
> >    * Add debian/upstream/metadata.
> >    * Replace debian/compat with debhelper-compat package.
> >
> >
> > regards,
> > Steve
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 9:27 PM Anton Gladky <gladk at debian.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear members of Debian Science Team,
> > >
> > > we are approaching to a new stable release freeze. If youhave some
> > > packages to be sponsored, please let us know.
> > >
> > > I have a very limited time, but I will try to review/sponsor someof
> > > packages.
> > >
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > >
> > > Anton
> > >