Bug#990397: What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

* Alan W. Irwin [2021-07-04 03:38]: A message on this thread from Atri Bhattacharya bounced (presumably because he used a non-subscription return address). But as list administrator I saw that bounced message which turned out to be of immediate interest. So I am reposting it here without

Bug#990397: What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

Hi Timo: As a Debian user, I agreed with what you said all the way down the line concerning how Debian is dealing with this transition from libqhull to reentrant libqhull_r. Furthermore, it looks like there is already a patch submitted to upstream PLplot to solve this issue which I will be

Bug#990397: What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

A message on this thread from Atri Bhattacharya bounced (presumably because he used a non-subscription return address). But as list administrator I saw that bounced message which turned out to be of immediate interest. So I am reposting it here without asking Atri to resubmit with subscription

Bug#990397: What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

Hi Alan! * Alan W. Irwin [2021-07-04 01:16]: However, I quarrel with that "likely to disappear soon" phrase since on that subject the qhull developers say the following (from ): "New code should be written with libqhull_r. Existing users of

Bug#990397: What are the development priorities for the csironn library? (was Bug#990397: depends on deprecated qhull library)

On 2021-07-02 10:38+0200 Rafael Laboissière wrote: Dear PLplot developers, I am hereby forwarding a bug report filed against the Debian plplot package regarding the use of a deprecated Qhull library [1]. Conversion of the code to the reentrant version of Qhull needs more changes than merely