Hi, Tobias and Dirk. Thanks to both of you for maintaing packages (no matter size and complexity) in our beloved Debian. I would love to contribute but my programming skills are a bit outdated. If I may help in any way, please don't hesitate in writing me (there will be a learning curve from my side).
Best, Alexandre On Dec 13 2021, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Hi Tobias, > > Thanks for piping in! > > On 13 December 2021 at 16:42, Tobias Hansen wrote: > | On 12/13/21 4:30 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | > Hi Alexandre, > | > > | > On 13 December 2021 at 09:08, Alexandre Lymberopoulos wrote: > | > | Hi there, Dirk! > | > | > | > | I see that, libgslblasc0 is upgradable to version 2.7.1+dfsg-3 here, but > | > | the upgrade available version of libgsl25 (2.6+dfsg-2 -> 2.7+dfsg-2) > | > | requires libgslbalsc0 2.7.1+dfsg-2, which is unavailable. > | > | > | > | Digging around here, I noticed that the only package that still depends > | > | on libgsl25 after a supposed upgrade is sagemath. Is there a way to let > | > | them know this and try tu upgrade their dependency to libgsl27? Or is it > | > | better to bugreport them? > | > > | > That is is a bit of grey zone to me too. Sometimes the ftpmasters help > nudge > | > this, or even do a 'binary build' (unchanged package rebuilt under new > dependencies). > | > I am CCing Sebastian who has been very helpful for the GSL update / > informal > | > transition. He may be able to suggest a next step. > | > > | > Otherwise you could start with a simple email to the maintainer. > | > > | > Cheers, Dirk > | > | sagemath maintainer here. The sagemath 9.2 package is broken at the moment > and does not build and I wouldn't expect it to work very well either. I am > working on a big update but that may still need some days until it's > finished. In the meantime I wouldn't mind if sagemath 9.2 breaks further. > > Thanks for maintaining such a large and complex package. It looks like things > are being addressed and Alexandre should be back to complete setup soon too. > > Cheers, Dirk > > | Best, > | > | Tobias > | > > -- > https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org -- =============================================================================== Alexandre Lymberopoulos - lym...@gmail.com ===============================================================================
