Bug#990397: What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

Rafael Laboissière rafael at laboissiere.net
Sun Jul 4 15:36:07 BST 2021


* Alan W. Irwin <Alan.W.Irwin1234 at gmail.com> [2021-07-04 03:38]:

> A message on this thread from Atri Bhattacharya 
> <badshah400 at opensuse.org> bounced (presumably because he used a 
> non-subscription return address).  But as list administrator I saw 
> that bounced message which turned out to be of immediate interest.  So 
> I am reposting it here without asking Atri to resubmit with 
> subscription address == return address.
>
> Atri said: 
> _________________________________________
>
> For openSUSE's plplot package, we have a patch to build against 
> libqhull_r, kindly contributed by Stefan. Here is the bug reference 
> which has the patch as an attachment: 
> <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/bugs/196/>. Would be great to get 
> this checked into plplot upstream.
>
> Hope that helps. 
> _________________________________________
>
> Hi Atri:
>
> I don't know how I missed that PLplot bug report with a patch that 
> from its title likely implements the csironn library 
> development topic that I just discussed on this thread!
>
> Anyhow, thanks for drawing this patch to my attention, and I hope 
> I have time to take a close look at in in the coming week or so.

JFYI, I applied the patch indicated by Atri to the Debian package and 
released version 5.15.0+dfsg-21 to the experimental distribution : 
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1243929/accepted-plplot-5150dfsg-21-source-into-experimental/

Best,

Rafael



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