Dear all, You once asked me to point to packages that I would consider of particular importance to be packaged. Got one.
Apache Arrow https://arrow.apache.org/faq/ knows how to efficiently handle large tabular data. And, while not in our distribution, it blocks some workflows for Debian Med. Arrow comes with interfaces to all the prominent languages, for the Med-workflows it is typically the Python interface pyarrow that is needed. https://arrow.apache.org/install/ presents a repository for Debian with a binary distribution on https://apache.jfrog.io/artifactory/arrow. Now, ideally, Apache would have contributed to Debian directly instead of providing their own repository. Maybe the right way to approach this would be to team up with the Apache folks. I just do not see any means to us just go and use their binary in the meantime since anything depending on it would not be buildable/testable. I am not using Arrow myself, but I presume just like me you all know some project that should be using it :) Best, Steffen
