>>>>> "A" == Andreas Tille <andr...@fam-tille.de> writes:
A> Hi Roland, On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:40:18AM +0200, Roland A> Fehrenbacher wrote: Hi folks, when I tried to fix this bug I A> realised that new upstream versions are out. I downloaded the A> latest one and imported it into Git[1]. Since I don't know the A> software I would like to ask you about your reasons you might A> have to stick to version 1.4. There are some patches to fix and A> may be some tests to do which I can't. So may be if I do not A> hear from you I'd probably only go with the restriction of A> architectures to amd64/i386 to fix #897239. >> >> please restrict again to amd64/i386 for now. A> OK, so I will do this for the currently available version in A> Debian. Fine. >> I hope I will get around building the new version in time before >> the next freeze. A> This would be really nice. At least I'll upload with a working A> watch file which will remember us that some work needs to be A> done. That's a good idea. Now that the source code is on Github, this has become feasible (wasn't at the time I originally created it). >> The big advantage of the newer versions 2.x + is support for >> GPUs. To support that will be quite a lot of effort though. A> I can not be of any help here since I have no idea about this A> program. I'd be very happy if you (or one of the other A> Uploaders) would take over this effort. It would be a shame if A> we would ship outdated software with Buster. Agreed. I'll try hard to get this in ... >> Given that we'll have to build against the non-free nvidia stuff >> for GPU support, will this require the package to move to >> non-free as well (at least the GPU variants)? A> Packages with free softeare depending from packages in non-free A> need to go to contrib. It would be great if those parts that do A> not need the non-free components could stay in main, thought. Good, thanks for the pointer. Will make sure that the free stuff stays in main. Best, Roland ------- http://www.q-leap.com / http://qlustar.com --- HPC / Storage / Cloud Linux Cluster OS ---