Eigen3 is used in the core math part of tensorflow. I have limited energy to patch these parts from time to time whenever eigen3 gets updated. I dislike introducing burden to myself.
Please reject it so I can get rid of this burden permanently. On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 04:26 Sean Whitton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Mo, > > On Mon 02 Mar 2020 at 01:27AM +00, M. Zhou wrote: > > > There are two embedded source tarballs: > > 1. abseil-cpp: the upstream (google) development model makes > > it unsuitable for debian packaging. This is a mandatory > > dependency of tensorflow. hence the embedded tarball. > > Thanks. If you don't expect any other packages to use it soon, then it > would be okay to embed it. > > > 2. eigen3: debian ships another version of this package. However, > > tensorflow is tightly coupled with a specific snapshot version > > by upstream. building against debian's eigen3 will result in > > nothing but FTBFS. Patching tensorflow to fix the insane amount > > of API breaks could be impractical as currently there is only > > one person working on this stuff. > > In this case I don't see why tensorflow should get a special exception > -- typically we would not include in Debian something which could not be > made to build against our regular version of a library. (Policy 4.13 > and longstanding practice) > > I don't see how the fact it's a headers-only library makes a difference > here. > > -- > Sean Whitton > -- Best,
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