Hi Chen-Tse, thanks for you quick response.
On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 09:48:14AM -0500, Chen-Tse Tsai wrote: > Hi, Andreas, > > I agree with your suggestions. Thanks for putting it on salsa! Thanks for confirming. > Should I investigate dropping python2? I can spend some time this week on > this. But I may need help with debian stuff. What exact help do you need? Do you have a login on Salsa? We could add you to science-team to grant you commit permissions. I admit I have not yet looked into the packaging - just realised that its cdbs which is unfortunate since it would not eliminate the Python2 dependency fully. Kind regards Andreas. > On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 7:39 AM Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 08:28:57AM +0000, Mo Zhou wrote: > > > I second this proposal, and the same for src:liblinear. > > > > That's done as I wrote. > > > > > These are high popcon packages, dependencies for a number of other > > > packages. They should be team maintained to unblock important fixes. > > > > To push a bit I just commited > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/libsvm > > > > Last maintainer upload was more than 3 years ago, 2 NMUs inbetween, > > package is lagging behind upstream. Anybody is kindly invited to adapt > > the packaging (I think we should really get rid of cdbs since this in > > turn is Python2) and proceed from here. > > > > Kind regards > > > > Andreas. > > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 08:35:28AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > Hi Chen-Tse, > > > > > > > > I'm maintaining a package that depends from libsvm. Due to bug #936924 > > > > that did not received any response since August it is in danger to be > > > > removed from testing so I'm interested that this bug will be fixed. > > > > When looking at the package I realised that while it would fit into > > > > Debian Science team scope it is not team maintained nor is there any > > > > repository in Salsa. That's why I have the following suggestion: > > > > > > > > 1. I create a repository on Salsa > > > > 2. Move the package to Debian Science team maintenance > > > > and add you as Uploader > > > > 3. Drop Python2 package and close bug #936924 > > > > 4. May be migrate packaging from cdbs to dh > > > > > > > > If I do not hear from you until Monday I assume you agree with this > > > > plan and will do so. > > > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > > > > > Andreas. > > > > > > > > PS: @Christian: I noticed that you and Chen-Tse are maintaining > > > > liblinear. I have just removed Python2 package and reassigned > > > > #936889 to ftp.debian.org to make sure python-liblinear will be > > > > removed. Thus libsvm can be dealt as suggested. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > http://fam-tille.de > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://fam-tille.de > > -- http://fam-tille.de