[Pkg-octave-devel] Sundials is way outdated

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 12:00:44AM -0800, Dima Kogan wrote:
> > If this would have been the case Dima or James should have responded in
> > the last three days, right?
> 
> Right. If you want to do the required work in the near term, then by all
> means, please do it.

For the moment I did the following:

    * converted old SVN to Git
    * applied Git changes by Dima Kogan to this repository
    * tried to merge some changes by James Tocknell from his competing
      repository[1]
    * renamed Dima Kogan's repository to sundials_dima_kogan.git

> I don't remember exactly what I was thinking when I did this. Normally,
> I'd import the old repo, but clearly I did not do that here. Yes, that
> is bad. Sorry. The existing new git repo isn't really used by anybody,
> and rebasing on top of a new svn import would be fine. I don't think
> you'll be confusing any existing users.

So this is done.
 
> > I fully share your concerns.  Dima and James claimed that they are happy
> > with their work for local usage but this does not help from a Debian
> > point of view at all.  @Dima & @James: Could you please explicitly lay
> > out your plans here until weekend.  In case we do not hear from you I
> > think the best plan is to redo the SVN-Git conversion.
> 
> Agree completely. Sorry for the mess.

No problem - just lets continue working together now.  As I wrote here
before the repository does not build and the hint from James Clarke[2]
did not really helped me.

So it would be really great if we all could work together now, bring it
into a buildable state and upload to experimental.  I admit I do not
feel competent for this package and would be happy if we would focus
together on this task.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

[1] https://github.com/aragilar/debian-packaging-sundials
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2017/01/msg00189.html

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