[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#597014: xmds: New upstream version 2.0

[Christian T. Steigies]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:49:51AM +1000, Joseph Hope wrote:
> "Upstream" here.  If you have any questions/comments/requests/patches for the new version of xmds, feel free to bug me.
> 
> As I emailed Thomas: 
> 
>     Our package "xmds" is bundled with Debian, and I
>     wanted to alert you that we've just released the
>     new version (xmds 2.0).
> 
>     It is basically outright superior to the old
>     version, and has been used by the developers for
>     over a year. We tested that it builds on the
>     current version of Debian, and would be keen to see
>     the distribution updated. The reason for the
>     special note is that the new version is completely
>     re-written, and in fact has been written in a
>     different language (python, with various
>     dependencies on other packages). Hopefully this is
>     not an obstacle in updating to the new package,
>     which has been posted on the sourceforge site
>     (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmds/) along with
>     relevant documentation and installation
>     instructions.

I think the packaging has to be redone from scratch. Should this be xmds2
(as the directory and binary are called) or does this fully replace xmds?
If the package name does not change, I would prefer it it the binary names
are not changed either. It would break any user scripts that rely on the
previous names.

The Makefile did not get me a working xmds2 executable, I am missing
xpdeint. This needs to get installed on the system properly, I haven't built
any python library packages yet. Maybe that is all that is needed, but I
will not have enough time for this the next month. Since we are in a freeze,
it will not make it into the next Debian version anyhow.

PS I am listed as the maintainer because the previous (main) maintainer
quit. I wouldn't mind if somebody else took over xmds, as I am not using
it.

Christian