Bug#1013214: O: asmjit -- Complete x86/x64 JIT and AOT Assembler for C++

[Andrius Merkys]

On 2022-12-19 20:26, M. Zhou wrote:

Sure, just do whatever you see appropriate, since you are the\
future maintainer  Thanks for taking it over!


Great, thank you!

Best wishes,
Andrius

Bug#1013214: O: asmjit -- Complete x86/x64 JIT and AOT Assembler for C++

[M. Zhou]

Sure, just do whatever you see appropriate, since you are the\
future maintainer :-) Thanks for taking it over!


On Mon, 2022-12-19 at 20:03 +0200, Andrius Merkys wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 20:04:05 -0700 "M. Zhou" 
> wrote:
> > I intend to orphan the asmjit package.
> 
> I would like to adopt the package inside Debian Deep Learning Team. 
> However, I would drop the artificial shared library as asmjit is 
> explicitly unstable [1]. Is it OK?
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1013214#12
> 
> Andrius

Bug#1013214: O: asmjit -- Complete x86/x64 JIT and AOT Assembler for C++

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi,

On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 20:04:05 -0700 "M. Zhou"  wrote:

I intend to orphan the asmjit package.


I would like to adopt the package inside Debian Deep Learning Team. 
However, I would drop the artificial shared library as asmjit is 
explicitly unstable [1]. Is it OK?


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1013214#12

Andrius

Bug#1013214: O: asmjit -- Complete x86/x64 JIT and AOT Assembler for C++

[Andrius Merkys]

Hello,

I have stumbled upon asmjit while packaging openmm. Asmjit is also 
embedded at least in erlang and mame [1], thus packaging it might be a 
good idea. However, asmjit is not yet stable [2], thus the shared 
library approach might not be appropriate: breaking changes will 
interfere with shared library handling in Debian and are likely to cause 
mess if sonames are not changed. A bit better approach, IMO, would be to 
ship static library. Anyway it is quite early to unembed asmjit from 
other sources.


[1] 
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=This+file+is+part+of+AsmJit+project=1

[2] https://asmjit.com/doc/group__asmjit__breaking__changes.html

Andrius

Bug#1013214: O: asmjit -- Complete x86/x64 JIT and AOT Assembler for C++

[M. Zhou]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
Control: affects -1 src:asmjit

I intend to orphan the asmjit package.
This package is in good shape.
This package is a dependency of some optional pytorch dependencies, but I've
forgotten the particular name. Anyway, I'm no longer planning to enable that
optional dependency.
So I'm no longer interested in maintaining this package.

The package description is:
 AsmJit is a complete JIT and AOT assembler for C++ language. It can generate
 native code for x86 and x64 architectures and supports the whole x86/x64
 instruction set - from legacy MMX to the newest AVX512. It has a type-safe API
 that allows C++ compiler to do semantic checks at compile-time even before the
 assembled code is generated and/or executed.
 .
 This package contains the header files and the static library.
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