[Debian-science-sagemath] upstreaming nauty patches?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi,

On 08/09/2019 16:55, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 1:34 PM Jerome BENOIT <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am maintaining the the nauty package for Debian.
>>
>> On 08/09/2019 16:17, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> has anyone tried upstreaming nauty patches (i.e. dynamic libraries and
>>> pkgconfig/nauty.pc) ?
>>
>> I submitted technical patch to the upstream maintainer once:
>> he did not apply them. I do not think he is reluctant to patches
>> as I convinced him to adopt a licence compatible with Debian.
> I thought it was me and other Sage people back in late 2015- early
> 2016 who convinced him to drop that incompatible "no military
> application" clause, but maybe there were more issues with that, dunno
> :-)
The first drop was not Debian friendly.
> But OK, it's done.
That is the point.


> 
>> I think that he is not that familiar and comfortable with technical issues
>> (C, unix shell, autotools). And, as academic, his time is certainly very precious:
> he is retired, since a while, so I don't think it's about time.
 
> 
> We need a good argument, e.g. difficulty to make a Python extension without a
> dynamic library.

The Debian package comes with a dynamic library.

I guess we must try to convince the new [co-]maintainer here.

Jerome

> 
> Dima
>> we can understand that technical issues are low in his priority list.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jerome
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dima
>>>
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