[Pkg-netsim-devel] Bug#785565: [Ns-developers] State of ns3 in the Debian distribution

[Martin Quinson]

Hello Tom, thanks for your reply.

On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 06:08:01PM +0000, Tom Henderson wrote:
> Hi Martin, responses inline below.
> 
> On 10/04/2017 05:26 AM, Martin Quinson wrote:
> > Hello dear developers,
> > 
> > Also, if you have an easy way to drop these dependencies (by disabling
> > them at build time), that could solve the issue on our side.  I know I
> > should RTFM for that, but I fail to find the time, and I would
> > appreciate this help in the package maintainance, please. The current
> > build receipe is here (that's a makefile):
> > http://sources.debian.net/src/ns3/3.26%2Bdfsg-1/debian/rules/
> There isn't an ns-3 build dependency on netanim.  The pyviz visualizer is
> automatically left out of the configuration if the prerequisites are not
> found by Waf.  Is this sufficient (if we don't resolve these package
> dependencies in time)?

Ok, then I will rebuild the package without that dependency, upload
it, and it should do the trick for now, I guess. I'll keep you posted.

> We are about to make a new ns-3 release (3.27).  We also noticed that the
> netanim package in Debian stretch is very old (3.100+ while we are now at
> 3.108).  Can we work towards replacing the old versions with the new
> versions in the current release of Debian, or must we wait until the next
> Debian release?

There is a plenty of time before the next official Debian release
(maybe one year and half). So we can definitely work something out for
Debian. Ubuntu regularly picks the packages in the Debian rolling
release as a basis for their own releases, but I'm unaware of their
schedule. I'd say that March 2018 is the target for the next LTS
release of Ubuntu.

The problem is that I have personnally I don't have any personal
interest in netanim myself, and absolutely no time to devote to that
task. If you can come up with a patch against the packaging scripts
that refresh it, I can certainly mentor the package upload.

Thanks, Mt.

-- 
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it takes strength to be gentle and kind.  -- Morrissey, I Know It's Over.
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