PDL 2.038

[Henning Glawe]

Moin Ed,

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 05:39:28PM +0000, Ed . wrote:
> Thank you for your work on the Debian PDL package! https://repology.org/project
> /perl:pdl/versions indicates that the latest Debian version of it is for 2.025.
> 
> Recently the repo directory has changed a tiny bit. The project has a debian/
> directory. Can you guide me on what I would run to ensure that the Debian-side
> work to bundle up PDL is minimal or in fact entirely from the debian/
> directory? I’d like to set that up in our CI so it’s one of the checks run on
> every commit.
> 
>  
> 
> Also, I’d like to see the PDL version updated, if that’s possible. Hopefully
> success at the above would also facilitate some automatic updating, like Fedora
> Rawhide seems to?

First of all, Debian is not a rolling-relase distribution. Once a new debian
release is made, all contained software is frozen, and only backports of
security-bug-fixes could ever enter an already released Debian version, to
ensure binary-level compatibility with all software in the stable release.

Debian Bullseye (the upcoming "Stable" release about to happen this summer)
is already frozen, so I doubt that a major PDL update could be pushed into
Bullseye.

There is the option of an upstream to take a more active part in updating
the unstable/SID packages, but you should contact the team currently 
reponsible for PDL (my line of work has driven me towards numpy, that's why I
resigned from any role at debian-pdl)

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henning