[Pkg-netsim-devel] Bug#875071: [Ns-developers] State of ns3 in the Debian distribution

[YunQiang Su]

Sorry for everyone.
I didn't take care of ns3 for years.

I will update it in few days.

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 3:54 AM, Martin Quinson
<martin.quinson at ens-rennes.fr> wrote:
> Hello Tom, thanks for your reply.
>
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 06:08:01PM +0000, Tom Henderson wrote:
>> Hi Martin, responses inline below.
>>
>> On 10/04/2017 05:26 AM, Martin Quinson wrote:
>> > Hello dear developers,
>> >
>> > Also, if you have an easy way to drop these dependencies (by disabling
>> > them at build time), that could solve the issue on our side.  I know I
>> > should RTFM for that, but I fail to find the time, and I would
>> > appreciate this help in the package maintainance, please. The current
>> > build receipe is here (that's a makefile):
>> > http://sources.debian.net/src/ns3/3.26%2Bdfsg-1/debian/rules/
>> There isn't an ns-3 build dependency on netanim.  The pyviz visualizer is
>> automatically left out of the configuration if the prerequisites are not
>> found by Waf.  Is this sufficient (if we don't resolve these package
>> dependencies in time)?
>
> Ok, then I will rebuild the package without that dependency, upload
> it, and it should do the trick for now, I guess. I'll keep you posted.
>
>> We are about to make a new ns-3 release (3.27).  We also noticed that the
>> netanim package in Debian stretch is very old (3.100+ while we are now at
>> 3.108).  Can we work towards replacing the old versions with the new
>> versions in the current release of Debian, or must we wait until the next
>> Debian release?
>
> There is a plenty of time before the next official Debian release
> (maybe one year and half). So we can definitely work something out for
> Debian. Ubuntu regularly picks the packages in the Debian rolling
> release as a basis for their own releases, but I'm unaware of their
> schedule. I'd say that March 2018 is the target for the next LTS
> release of Ubuntu.
>
> The problem is that I have personnally I don't have any personal
> interest in netanim myself, and absolutely no time to devote to that
> task. If you can come up with a patch against the packaging scripts
> that refresh it, I can certainly mentor the package upload.
>
> Thanks, Mt.
>
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YunQiang Su