On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 12:36 Mo Zhou <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tille, > > Is there any COVID-19 package using pytorch blocked due to its absense? > > A good news is that I've managed to strip the whole third_party/ > directory of src:pytorch, and started to forward my patches to upstream[1]. > When all my modifications entered the upstream repo, I'll be quite > confident that our src:pytorch package can enter the archive without > any (annoying) embedded sources [2]. > > What I'm doing now is to wait for the upstream to merge my commits, and > for the ftp-masters to accept my NEW dependency packages. > > In that sense, I'd like to take the COVID-19 shortcut to pass NEW > quickly, if any COVID-19 related package needs pytorch. > > --- According to my status page > https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=lumin > these are the NEW dependency packages: > > fp16 > fxdiv > gloo > onnx > psimd > pthreadpool >
Go ahead and add them to https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/NEW-Requests > I'll start to re-debianize src:pytorch from scratch when all of my > commits had been upstreamed. > Any reason to not add the removed files/folders to the Files-Excluded stanza of debian/copyright and repack the source while you wait? > --- all of my on-going work are publically available: > https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team > https://github.com/cdluminate/pytorch (messy, not rebased yet) > The links to my PRs can be found on [1] > > [1] https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/14699 > [2] Finally, we will have a modern deep learning framework in the > archive. It's better than having nothing even if I'm working on the > cpu-only (free) version. > > On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 10:06:12AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > 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 > > > >
