On 2016-10-13 08:52, Ole Streicher wrote: > Aurelien Jarno: > > Florian Schlichting: > >> a new upstream version of cfitsio was released in April 2016. Would you > >> consider packaging it? > > > > Yes, I am aware of that. Unfortunately it introduces yet another soname > > changes, which make things a bit more complicated. > > Since there is a transition freeze effective from 2016-11-05 [1], this > should IMO be addressed ASAP. For the packages under Debian Astro > maintenance, I could offer help here.
I agree we that if we want to get it in Stretch, it has to be done ASAP. That said it's a minor release, without that many changes, despite the ABI breakage :(. I have just uploaded the new version to experimental. > Could you specify where you expect the complications? I haven't been able to test rebuild all the reverse dependencies yet, so they are not yet known. > BTW, I would recommend to put cfitsio under Debian Astro team > maintenance, due to the importance of the package. Would you be willing > to do that? Please give me access to the project, I'll commit it there. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net