Hi Diane, On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 11:49:07AM -0700, Diane Trout wrote: > On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 18:17 +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > > > > So this is a plea for anyone looking for something really helpful to > > do: it would be great to have a group of developers finally package > > this! There was some initial work done (see the RFP bug report for > > details: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970021), > > but that is fairly old now. As Apache Arrow supports numerous > > languages, it may well benefit from having a group of developers with > > different areas of expertise to build it. (Or perhaps it would make > > more sense to split the upstream source into a collection of > > different > > Debian source packages for the different supported languages. I > > don't > > know.) Unfortunately I don't have the capacity to devote any time to > > it myself. > > > > Thanks in advance for anyone who can step forward for this! > > I've been maintain dask and anndata and saw that apache arrow was > getting increasingly popular. > > I took the current science-team preliminary packaging 7.0.0 packaging > and managed to get it to build through a combination of patches and > turning off features. > > I even mostly managed to get pyarrow to build. (Though some tests fail > due to pytest lazy-fixture being abandoned). > > I pushed my current work in progress to. > > https://salsa.debian.org/diane/arrow.git > > Was anyone else planning on working on it or should I push my updates > to the science-team package?
Lovely to hear from you, and oh wow, that's amazing, thank you! I can't speak for anyone else, but I suggest that pushing your updates to the science-team package would be very sensible; it would be silly for someone else to have to redo your work. What more is needed for it to be ready for unstable? Best wishes, Julian
