Hi Alan! * Alan W. Irwin <alan.w.irwin1...@gmail.com> [2021-07-04 01:16]:
However, I quarrel with that "likely to disappear soon" phrase since on that subject the qhull developers say the following (from <http://www.qhull.org/html/qh-code.htm#reentrant>):"New code should be written with libqhull_r. Existing users of libqhull should consider converting to libqhull_r. Although *libqhull will be supported indefinitely* [emphasis mine], improvements may not be implemented."
As the submitter of the original bugreport and co-maintainer of the Debian qhull packages, I admit I overlooked that statement of indefinite support. However, upstream did stop building the libqhull shared library in their CMakeLists.txt and I had to patch the file to re-enable it for the latest release [1]. I felt this development was justification enough to prod the qhull reverse-dependencies to move towards the reentrant version. Of course, I'm not going to drop libqhull support unless all reverse-dependencies in Debian have transitioned to the reentrant version or upstream forces my hand by actively removing the sources from the release (which seems very unlikely now in light of the above statement), so the transition is still beneficial (IMHO), but not urgent. Cheers Timo [1] https://sources.debian.org/src/qhull/2020.2-3/debian/patches/0006-Build-deprecated-libqhull-for-now.patch/ -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ │ Timo Röhling │ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ │ 9B03 EBB9 8300 DF97 C2B1 23BF CC8C 6BDD 1403 F4CA │ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ ╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
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