[Debichem-devel] Bug#732520: abinit: New upstream version, package unmaintained

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Ondrej,

as I said below I'd consider uploading abinit as is in SVN to get it at
least from a Debian packaging point of view fixed even if it is
outdated.  If I do not hear from you I will close #550410 by removing
you from Uploaders.  In case this will happen you are perfectly welcome
to add your ID again for further upgrades of the package and as I
repeatedly said I would be happy to sponsor your work.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 03:53:02PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 01:08:39PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> > IMO you better start with the most recent version. It seems to not have the
> > previous DFSG-related issues (the whole orig-tarball target in debian/rules seems
> > to be obsolete!).
> 
> I agree that the latest version makes way more sense.  However Ondrej
> said in response to my initial mail that he would consider working on this task
> which might need some more detailed knowledge about abinit than I have (mine is
> defintely none).  My intention was to bring some totally broken package to some
> recent standard which is now reached in SVN to some extent.  At least the package
> builds reasonably, is conform with latest Standards-Version and uses the latest
> packaging tools (debhelper 9; dh).
>  
> > I took a quick look into the source and there is no need to run dh_autoreconf.
> > ...
> 
> Fixed in SVN.
> 
> > Further if abinit 5.x does not have more buildd related issues atm, there is IMHO
> > no sense in rewriting the build system for this version. Better start with abinit 7 then.
> 
> Since the package now rebuilds the binary packages currently inside the
> archive and contains less bugs and less lintian warnings I'd like to
> upload it as is now.
> 
> The only thing I would like to know from Ondrej is, how to deal with
> #550410. ;-)
> 
> I would be available for sponsering newer versions of abinit if a
> sponsor is needed.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>        Andreas.
> 
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