Could Debian Perl team take over PDL?

[Niko Tyni]

(trimmed cc's; perhaps we should record this stuff in a bug?)

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 03:55:41PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:

> I've started to update the pdl package to the latest upstream release.
> There history from the debian-science git repo has been pushed to the
> newly created git repository under pkg-perl.

Thanks! FWIW, I looked at the old debian/patches last week. Many of
them are unfortunately rather tersely documented.

These seem to be droppable:
 fix_pod2man_errors.patch (applied upstream)
 build-pdl-wrapper-via-makefile.patch (pdl.PL no longer exists)
 gsl-2.patch (fixed upstream)

Not quite sure if we could drop
 fix_manifest.patch
If we still need it definitely needs updating.

These look like they should be pushable upstream:
 doc_dirlist.patch (multiple arguments to scantree.pl)
 dumper_gnukfreebsd.patch (trivial)

These look scary but still seem to be needed, despite the changelog
saying 2.015 "improved 64-bit integer support":
 minuit_default_integer_8.patch
 slatec_default_integer_8.patch

This seems to conflate several issues like 64-bit integer support,
reproducible builds and F77 usage?
 debian/patches/testsuite_fixes.patch

Also, I fear debian/copyright is going to need quite some love.

Sorry for not actually doing much about these yet, just wanted to send
this out to avoid duplicate work.
-- 
Niko