Hi Ole: Here are my further remarks on a variety of topics relevant to yur packaging effort.
The upstream versus Debian topic: On 2017-07-11 13:43-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
I agree this confusion between upstream and Debian is not ideal. However, Debian packaging is important to us since it does reveal some deficiencies (at least from the Debian point of view) with the upstream version. And I do have sufficient Debian packaging knowledge that I can interpret a debian subdirectory tree even if I don't have sufficient knowledge to create one on my own. So I think the best thing to do is to replace everything in our now out-dated debian subdirectory with a README that shows how to get convenient access to the latest debian packaging information that you are working on. So I would appreciate you supplying that information, and once I have that from you, I will make that proposed change.
I am still waiting for that information from you to help finish off this topic between us. The PLplot nn and csa library licensing topic: See my recent post concerning this issue. The upshot is this licensing problem appears to be completely resolved now thanks to your help and Pavel Sakov's kindly (and very quick) cooperation with my request for permission to do that licensing update. Time for a big celebration for both of us! The PLplot release topic: I should have stated before to you (since it is completely relevant to your packaging effort) that I am planning a PLplot-5.13.0 release "soon". A lot of issues (such as the above licensing issue) appear to be falling into place pretty rapidly right now so "soon" might actually be some time this month, but stay tuned about that. Best wishes, Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
