Hi Karl,
On 01.08.21 10:14, Karl Glazebrook wrote:
There does not seem to have been any further reply on this thread?
Yea, and the bug was then archived a while ago. For the discussion, I
unarchived it and forwarded your last mail.
Gregor says 'In Debian all tests [0] pass’
However, if you drill down in to the logs you can see they are not being
run correctly
The best would be to open a new Debian bug for libpgplot-perl with these
findings. I would guess a bug there.
The original Caltech pgplot is old software but works fine and is
required by a lot of astronomy software. Seems to me we can have a
debian package for it, and for giza-pgplot seperately? I note all the
advantages of giza, and it can be the default.
Would it make sense to create a debian package called
‘libpgplot-classic’ or something for ‘contrib'?
I would guess that this is not that simple, as it would require a fork
of the package. The problem is that pgplot is a static library (and the
package itself is a one-in-all). Therefore, it would be needed as a buld
time dependency, which would make the source package "contrib".
Another way would be to modernize the original pgplot package, with a
shared lib and then let the user decide which one to link at run time.
But this requires a significant effort, and the pgplot package itself
seems quite unmaintained in Debian.
Cheers
Ole
