Re: About removing libsis-jhdf5-java from unstable

Pierre Gruet <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:53:35 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.medical
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Andreas,

Le 16/09/2024 à 09:46, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> Hi Pierre,
> 
> Am Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 07:24:04AM +0200 schrieb Pierre Gruet:
>> I would like to remove libsis-jhdf5-java from unstable. To be accurate, it
>> is rather a proposal by pini in the bug log
>> 	https://bugs.debian.org/1078968
>> which is about libsis-jhdf5-java blocking the upcoming auto-hdf5 transition.
>> pini and I looked at it and it seems difficult to see what changes would be
>> needed in libsis-jhdf5-java to make it build against hdf5 1.14.x .
>> Meanwhile, upstream does not seem to be active anymore, the orig repo is
>> unreachable...
>>
>> I have reworked the two rdeps of the package, fastqc and megan-ce, so that
>> they don't need sis-jhdf5.
> 
> The only reason why sis-jhdf5 was packaged was fastqc (possibly later
> megan-ce was profitting from it).

Ok, thanks for the information!

> 
>> This was done by removing some classes from the
>> build. This does not affect their rdeps. fastqc and megan-ce have reached
>> testing, so that libsis-jhdf5-java now has no rdep in unstable nor testing.
>>
>> If no voice is raised, I will proceed with the removal of libsis-jhdf5-java
>> from unstable within a week.
> 
> Sounds perfectly fine as long as fastqc and megan-ce are fine and are
> passing their tests.

I can confirm they are :)

>   
>> Cc-ing the current other uploaders so that no one misses it.
> 
> Thanks for the ping and caring for Debian Med Java packages.

You're welcome, thanks for being supportive and granting time to give 
advice on the packages of the team!

> 
> Kind regards
>      Andreas.
> 

All the best,

-- 
Pierre

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