On 06/03/2016 10:55 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 06/03/2016 10:07 PM, Niko Tyni wrote: >> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 12:02:32PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> I've got a request from PDL upstream who fully correctly noticed that >>> PDL is not properly maintained inside Debian. Since I once did some >>> ad-hoc fixes Upstream CCed me whether I could do something as Debian >>> Science team member. I had a look and updated Git[1] a bit but I >>> noticed that it is way better if some Perl programmer could have a look. >>> I admit that the patches are more than the small time cycles I would be >>> able to spent into this would permit me to do. >>> >>> I'd be really happy if Debian Perl team could take over maintenance >>> of this package. >> >> Thanks for the note. I'm adding debian-perl to the recipient list, >> that's a bit better for discussions than the pkg-perl-maintainers one. >> >> PDL does seem to fit well in the pkg-perl domain so I think that should >> be fine. It clearly needs some work (there are old Debian patches that >> have little documentation or anything) and I can't promise any schedule, >> but I'll try to look at it. Help is welcome of course. >> >> I see Henning is still listed as the Maintainer for libpdl-io-hdf5-perl >> and libpdl-netcdf-perl. Are those up for adoption too? > > I assume they are up for adaption too. libpdl-netcdf-perl hasn't seen > any activity since I NMUed it for the netcdf transition last October. > > PDL and its related packages are reverse dependencies of several > packages maintained by the Debian GIS team, I can probably help get PDL > back into shape within the Perl team too (no promises either).
I've started to update the pdl package to the latest upstream release. There history from the debian-science git repo has been pushed to the newly created git repository under pkg-perl. Henning is listed as the sole Uploader, who would like to be among the Uploaders of the package within the Perl team to take his place? Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers