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

[John Abraham]

Hi,

Just stating along the same lines as Tom did:

NetAnim has been compatible with Qt5 for a few versions now. But many users
had Qt4 and were just beginning to transition to Qt5 and our documentation
for NetAnim has not kept pace.

However, in the coming days, we will remove references to Qt4 in our
documentation after testing out the Qt5 installation for various
distributions.

Thanks
John




On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 2:58 AM, Martin Quinson <martin.quinson at ens-rennes.fr
> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Please do not applogize, there is nothing to be ashamed for. Real life
> often restrain us from contributing to Debian and others... That's life.
> Thank you for all you did in the past, and what you will manage to do
> in the future. That would be really great if you could do an upload
> without the python-pygoocanvas dependency, please.
>
> Thanks in advance, Mt.
>
> On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 04:28:59PM +0800, YunQiang Su wrote:
> > Sorry for everyone.
> > I didn't take care of ns3 for years.
> >
> > I will update it in few days.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 3:54 AM, Martin Quinson
> > <martin.quinson at ens-rennes.fr> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > --
> > > It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate,
> > > it takes strength to be gentle and kind.  -- Morrissey, I Know It's
> Over.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > YunQiang Su
>
> --
> alvin: mais ça, au moins dans ma tête, c'est à peu près clair
> frs69wq: bah t'enverra ta tête aux relecteurs alors...
>
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