Could Debian Perl team take over PDL?

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 06/12/2016 11:32 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 06/12/2016 09:34 PM, Niko Tyni wrote:
>> Sorry for not actually doing much about these yet, just wanted to send
>> this out to avoid duplicate work.
> 
> With the recent changes in git the package builds, but only with test
> failures ignored. I'll look into fixing those where possible later.
> There are also a bunch of lintian issues that need to be addressed. An
> upload to experimental should happen soon, so we can start testing and
> updating the reverse dependencies too (only libtfbs-perl is not
> maintained by the Perl team).

Only a few hardening lintian issues remain (mostly
no-fortify-functions), that I've not been able to resolve yet. More
importantly we should get the two binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath errors
resolved. The tests failures are also not fixed yet.

libpdl-stats-perl is in the same boat, the build only succeeds when the
test failures are ignored (all the tests in t/stats_ols_rptd.t fail).
libpdl-stats-perl is not in testing, so not a blocker for the pdl
transition.

> There are now also git repositories for libpdl-io-hdf5-perl &
> libpdl-netcdf-perl under the pkg-perl umbrella on Alioth, they're
> populated with gbp import-dscs since no VCS appears to be in use for
> these packages so far. I've not gotten around to updating these packages
> yet, I'd like to get pdl ready for experimental first.

Both libpdl-io-hdf5-perl & libpdl-netcdf-perl have been updated and are
ready for upload. We should wait with that until the new pdl is
available in unstable. Because the virtual pdlapi dependency changes
from pdlapi-10 to pdlapi-12 a transition is required. Because all
reverse dependencies of pdl (except libtfbs-perl) are maintained within
the Perl team we not have to coordinate the transition with the Release
Team, saving everyone some time and effort.

libpdl-linearalgebra-perl is in good shape and also ready for upload,
the same goes for libpdl-io-matlab-perl & libpdl-graphics-gnuplot-perl.

I've also updated libtfbs-perl (maintained by the Debian Med team) and
sent the patches to the BTS (#827499). None of the changes are required
for the pdl transition, so it's not a blocker either.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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