Sorry for everyone. I didn't take care of ns3 for years. I will update it in few days.
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 3:54 AM, Martin Quinson <martin.quin...@ens-rennes.fr> wrote: > Hello Tom, thanks for your reply. > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 06:08:01PM +0000, Tom Henderson wrote: >> Hi Martin, responses inline below. >> >> On 10/04/2017 05:26 AM, Martin Quinson wrote: >> > Hello dear developers, >> > >> > Also, if you have an easy way to drop these dependencies (by disabling >> > them at build time), that could solve the issue on our side. I know I >> > should RTFM for that, but I fail to find the time, and I would >> > appreciate this help in the package maintainance, please. The current >> > build receipe is here (that's a makefile): >> > http://sources.debian.net/src/ns3/3.26%2Bdfsg-1/debian/rules/ >> There isn't an ns-3 build dependency on netanim. The pyviz visualizer is >> automatically left out of the configuration if the prerequisites are not >> found by Waf. Is this sufficient (if we don't resolve these package >> dependencies in time)? > > Ok, then I will rebuild the package without that dependency, upload > it, and it should do the trick for now, I guess. I'll keep you posted. > >> We are about to make a new ns-3 release (3.27). We also noticed that the >> netanim package in Debian stretch is very old (3.100+ while we are now at >> 3.108). Can we work towards replacing the old versions with the new >> versions in the current release of Debian, or must we wait until the next >> Debian release? > > There is a plenty of time before the next official Debian release > (maybe one year and half). So we can definitely work something out for > Debian. Ubuntu regularly picks the packages in the Debian rolling > release as a basis for their own releases, but I'm unaware of their > schedule. I'd say that March 2018 is the target for the next LTS > release of Ubuntu. > > The problem is that I have personnally I don't have any personal > interest in netanim myself, and absolutely no time to devote to that > task. If you can come up with a patch against the packaging scripts > that refresh it, I can certainly mentor the package upload. > > Thanks, Mt. > > -- > It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, > it takes strength to be gentle and kind. -- Morrissey, I Know It's Over. -- YunQiang Su