Hi Matthias,

On Tue, May 25, 2021, 04:54 Matthias Klose <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> at the recent Python Language Summit at PyCon US 2021 I got the question if
> Debian is packaging tensorflow (couldn't answer this question and promised
> to
> follow-up).  I realize that the package in Debian was removed, because
> bazel was
> missing in the archive.  There seems to be work now on bazel.
>

Yes, Wookey and Francis are working on TensorFlow packaging under the Deep
Learning team [1]. It's challenging work for them because we're still only
on Phase 2 of our Bazel packaging effort. [2] (And currently waiting on a
binary package change to clear NEW. That change is blocking the next few
packages we have targeted at experimental.) That being said, we're trying
to support TensorFlow packaging as much as possible.

bazel-bootstrap-data currently depends on some nodejs packages.  Is this
> really
> needed for the bootstrap?  Asking because the nodejs packages are not yet
> available on all architectures.
>

I'll look into that when I get back to my dev machine. Off the top of my
head, I believe that dependency was to prevent duplicate files (i.e. files
that lintian informed me were already packaged in nodejs) in some of the
Bazel documentation.

And, where's the best place to follow discussions on bazel and tensorflow?


I copied the Debian Bazel mailing list and the Debian Science list since I
understand the Deep Learning team is currently using the Science team list
for coordination.

Happy to answer any other questions you have related to Bazel in Debian!

-Olek

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/tensorflow
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/bazel-team/meta

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