I did a bit of reading around, and https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/pdl makes 
it look like the “asking a question” or “filing a bug” links would be a 
starting point. Generally, I believe that reaching out and offer to package a 
libpdl-graphics-pgplot-perl (checking I got the right one this time :-) and 
asking for pointers will be the way forward. I gather from the -plplot entry 
that would create a new “package” with ITP (intent to package) status.

My feeling is it wouldn’t be lots of effort. If you’re happy to take the lead 
and initiate comms and get their steers on tools and things one needs to sign 
up for, I’m very happy to support. With the knowledge gained with that, we 
could then package up things like PDL::Graphics::Simple, which I feel would 
make users’ lives a lot easier on the interactive front. I want to add a 3D 
capability to it, in imitation of MATLAB’s “surf” function.

By the way, I read up a little on the Giza implementation of the PGPLOT 
interface; does it work sufficiently for your purposes as a PGPLOT replacement?

Best regards,
Ed


From: Karl Glazebrook<mailto:kglazebr...@swin.edu.au>
Sent: 14 August 2021 08:31
To: Ed .<mailto:ej...@hotmail.com>
Cc: pdl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:pdl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Pdl-devel] Ubuntu/debian PDL packages & pgplot

Anyone have an idea where to start?

Karl



On 2 Aug 2021, at 9:19 am, Ed . <ej...@hotmail.com<mailto:ej...@hotmail.com>> 
wrote:

Hi Karl,

Ha, indeed I did link to results for PLplot, not PGPLOT. I would be quite 
interested in the results of asking Ubuntu/Debian folks about this!

Best regards,
Ed

From: Karl Glazebrook<mailto:kglazebr...@swin.edu.au>
Sent: 02 August 2021 00:12
To: Ed .<mailto:ej...@hotmail.com>
Cc: pdl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:pdl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu/debian PDL packages & pgplot





On 2 Aug 2021, at 2:28 am, Ed . <ej...@hotmail.com<mailto:ej...@hotmail.com>> 
wrote:

Hi Karl,

I might have missed something, but when you say “PDL::Graphics::PDL” did you 
mean “PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT”?


Hi Ed, you are absolutely right! Oops. I’ve rewritten the email again below as 
correctness is critical due to the multiple similar names,



In any case, looking at https://packages.ubuntu.com/hirsute/amd64/pdl/filelist 
implies that there is indeed no PGPLOT.pm<http://pgplot.pm/> (though the demos 
are present).

https://wnpp.debian.net/?type%5B%5D=RFP&project=libpdl-graphics-plplot-perl&description=&owner%5B%5D=yes&owner%5B%5D=no&col%5B%5D=description&sort=project%3Bdesc
 implies there is an open “RFP” (request for packaging) for 
libpdl-graphics-plplot-perl, which in turn implies that if someone did create a 
package, they would accept it.


Yes, but this is for the PLPLOT interface not the PGPLOT interface. I was 
wondering if this was a typo and more generally if anyone on the dev list here 
new what the plan was for the package refactoring on debian. I can take this to 
the Ubuntu or Debian lists but thought I would start here first

---


Hi there devs,

Does anyone know what is going on in the Ubuntu/debian packges for PDL and the 
PGPLOT interface?

If I do ‘apt install pdl’ then running pdl and doing ‘use 
PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT’ gives a missing package error.

There is a message during the apt install that says:

sudo apt install pdl
...
Suggested packages:
  gsl-ref-psdoc | gsl-doc-pdf | gsl-doc-info | gsl-ref-html libhdf4-doc
  libhdf4-alt-dev hdf4-tools doc-base libastro-fits-header-perl
  libdevel-repl-perl libextutils-f77-perl libfile-map-perl libinline-perl
  libinline-c-perl libmodule-compile-perl libopengl-perl libpdl-fftw-perl
  libpdl-graphics-plplot-perl libpgplot-perl netpbm | imagemagick proj-bin

If I then install libpgplot-perl then ‘use PGPLOT’ works but not  ‘use 
PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT’.

(I note that libpdl-graphics-plplot-perl does not seem to exist, logically one 
might think there should be a libpdl-graphics-pgplot-perl but that is not even 
mentioned - seehttps://packages.ubuntu.com/hirsute/pdl)

The module PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT is pure perl, so there is no harm in including 
it in the pdl package. I am guessing someone removed it from the debian(?) 
package and intended to create libpdl-graphics-pgplot-perl as part of a package 
refactoring, but did not. It almost looks like libpdl-graphics-plplot-perl is a 
typo?

I am not sure if this is an Ubuntu issue or a Debian one, and I don’t really 
following all the naming conventions of the metapackages and how Ubuntu 
packages relate to Debian ones

Note the pdl.perl.org<http://pdl.perl.org/> easy install page recommendation 
for Ubuntu/debian no longer works!


best

Karl

p.s. not relevant but  the libpgplot-perl package actually gives a 
re-implementation of pgplot using giza,



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