On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 03:38:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote: > +debian-science-sagemath as well > > Ximin Luo: > > tony mancill: > >> [..] > >> > >> This upload was rejected due to a lintian error that existed in the > >> source package before I added the patch. Since NMUs are supposed to > >> be very targeted, the rejection puts us in an odd place. Will the > >> upload to experimental [1] find its way into unstable before the > >> freeze, or should I try again with 12.2.32? > >> > > > > Hi Tony and everyone else I added: > > > > That depends on what DebiChem, Debian Med, and the Debian Java Team > > collectively want. > > > > jmol has three reverse dependencies. The new upload, jmol 14, breaks all of > > them. > > > > - biojava3-live can feasibly be dropped from Debian. > > > > - biojava4-live is currently being worked on by the upstream developer. > > We're waiting to hear back from them. > > > > - jalview's current version doesn't work with jmol 14, but the new version > > does. I started packaging it, but it adds several other dependencies not in > > Debian. Most of them seem bio related: > > > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/jalview.git/tree/debian/TODO > > > > fr.orsay.lri.varna.* > > htsjdk.samtools.* > > org.biodas.jdas.* > > org.jfree.graphics2d.svg.* > > > > So we have a few options: > > > > 1. Keep everything old in Debian, and SageMath out of Debian stable. > > 2. Update Jmol in Debian, with a chance of SageMath entering Debian stable, > > but drop biojava4 and jalview from Debian stable. (They can remain broken > > in unstable, with a chance of fixing them later, ofc) > > 3. Update Jmol in Debian, and update biojava4 and jalview as well. > > > > If I work on (3) I don't think I will have any time to properly work on > > (2), but that is where my main personal interest lies. I'm also wondering > > what you all prefer, too.
Hi Ximin, If the consensus is that there is value keeping the old package in Debian for this release cycle, I think I can work on (1). The upload would be the prior NMU + swapping out the JSON library for a non-evil implementation. I just did the same port for JabRef (by way of unirest-java), and it's not too difficult. Cheers, tony
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