Bug#1023795: Please undo the replace of pgplot with giza-pgplot

2022-11-17 Thread James Cameron
reassign 1023795 libpgplot-perl retitle 1023795 Use pgplot5 thanks Thanks for your permission to reassign. My users see what Debian provide as coming from and therefore part of Debian, even when it is in contrib and non-free. We value all of Debian, not only the parts of the distribution in

Bug#1023795: Please undo the replace of pgplot with giza-pgplot

2022-11-16 Thread Ole Streicher
Hi James, Citing from 2.2.1: | The main archive area comprises the Debian distribution. | Only the packages in this area are considered part of the ^^^ | distribution. ^^^ | [...] | Every package in main must comply with the

Bug#1023795: Please undo the replace of pgplot with giza-pgplot

2022-11-16 Thread James Cameron
Hello Ole, seeking to clarify your latest. My understanding is that pgplot5 is in Debian now under Debian Policy section 2.2.3, in the non-free archive area. Also, libpgplot-perl is in Debian now under Debian Policy section 2.2.2, in the contrib archive area for Stretch, and main for later

Bug#1023795: Please undo the replace of pgplot with giza-pgplot

2022-11-16 Thread Ole Streicher
Hi, I am the Debian maintainer of giza. I still think that the main problem here is that pgplot is not free software and therefore cannot be part of Debian; see Debian Policy section 2.2.1. The same applies to packages which depend on pgplot, like libpgplot-perl. I would in the first place

Bug#1023795: Please undo the replace of pgplot with giza-pgplot

2022-11-10 Thread Karl Glazebrook
Package: libcpgplot0 Version: 1.2.0-1 Severity: important I would like to reopen bug 869135 (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=869135 ) The fact that the package libcpgplot0 implements the cpgplot api using an