Hi Mo, On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 02:46:06AM +0000, Mo Zhou wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 11:49:07AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 08:56:45AM +0100, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: > > > tensorflow 1.10 was packaged in experimental, but with reduced > > > performance, > > > and was removed because this was considered not worth it: > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=935769 > > > > Ah I simply forgot this. Thanks for refreshing my mind. > > After that I tried to refresh the packaging and uploaded tensorflow 2.0 > to the NEW queue. The ftp-master complained about the embedded snapshot > version of Eigen3. Ftp-masters are not convinced even if I said > tensorflow FTBFS against the version shipped in our archive, and it > could waste lots of my time and energy to patch the related code.
I can understand your feeling. I've re-read the discussion[1] about including eigen3 into the tensorflow source. The most promising statement was given in https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/debian-science-maintainers/2020-March/079169.html Sean Whitton spwhitton at spwhitton.name Tue Mar 3 04:04:52 GMT 2020 Rejected per your request, but from my point of view this discussion is not over -- Policy 4.13 says that packages *should* not use convenience copies of code, not that they *must* not. Thank you for all your work on uploading useful ML packages. At first: Thanks also from me! >From my point of view that is not a lost case so we should really try again. > I was so angry at that time so I deleted my name from the maintainers > and wrote the git message "I'm dropping this burden.". Well, sometimes personal feelings are dominating our actions. I hope we could form some real team around this to spread the technical as well as the organisational burden. > So another kind notice for whoever is willing to take over tensorflow: > also be prepared to fuss with ftp-master. I need to admit that I'm absolutely happy about ftpmaster. They are currently *extremely* supportive to our COVID-19 hackathon and > 30 packages made it from upload to unstable in less than 24 hours! Since I consider it a "promising time" to reach a lot for deep learning tools in Debian which are frequently used in those tools to hunt down COVID-19 I'd like to call for help here for trying again to get tensorflow in - this time even with the Python3 module. Lumin has written an own build system for the C++ library since he has found out that the upstream build system is not usuable for Debian. Regarding the Python3 module he said that its not simply a matter of adapting his build system but "significantly extend" it since the python building process is much more complicated than the process for C++. Any takers for this task? Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/debian-science-maintainers/2020-March/079054.html -- http://fam-tille.de