Bug#869135: Please don't adopt giza for libpgplot-perl

[Carlo Segre]

I concur, the sooner we eliminate pgplot5, the better.

Carlo

On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, gregor herrmann wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 10:13:58 +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
>
>> Hi Karl,
>> I am the Debian maintainer of giza, and I created this bug to move from
>> pgplot to giza. [..]
>
> Thanks for your detailed summary, Ole.
>
>> To summarize, I would very much prefer to keep the package linked to
>> giza, and to fix the problems with giza when they appear in the wild.
>> But this is my personal opinion; the final decision is up to the package
>> maintainer (Gregor Herrmann, and the Debian Perl Group).
>
> There's not much I can add. I also was happy that we can move libpgplot-perl
> into Debian proper as giza is free software, and as there have been
> no bug reports so far, I currently see no reason to revert this
> change. Also thanks for your offer to help in fixing problems in case
> they arise in the future.
>
> Karl, in case you hit any concrete bugs in our libpgplot-perl linked
> against giza, please don't hestitate to file a bug report.
>
> Cheers,
> gregor
>
>
>

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