On Sat, 2019-07-06 at 19:47 +0100, James Paul Turner wrote: > On Mon, 2019-07-01 at 21:55 -0600, Jerry James wrote: > > Is anything happening with introducing MPFR 4 into Fedora? I found > > these: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/mpfr-4.0.0 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1537252 > > > > but they indicate that efforts to update have come to a halt. I > > ask > > because I have had to patch 2 of my packages to keep them working > > with > > MPFR 3, and I've got more that are said to work with either version > > 3 > > or version 4. > > > > I am willing to put some effort into making the update happen. I > > agree with the previous assessments that we will probably have to > > make > > the two versions parallel installable for awhile, possibly for > > quite > > awhile, until everything can be migrated to version 4. > > > > This is the list of source packages in Fedora 30 that depend on > > libmpfr, with asterisks by the ones I maintain, comaintain, or just > > tend to meddle with: > > > > R-Rmpfr > > Singular (*) > > apron (*) > > arb (*) > > arm-none-eabi-gcc-cs > > avr-gcc > > cross-gcc > > fawkes > > flint (*) > > gap-pkg-float (*) > > gappa (*) > > gawk > > gcc > > gdb > > genius > > ghdl > > giac > > gnome-calculator > > gretl > > ledger > > libbytesize > > libfplll (*) > > libmpc > > libqalculate > > libscs > > mingw-gcc > > mpfi (*) > > nacl-gcc > > ocaml-mlgmpidl > > ocaml-tplib (*) > > octave-interval > > openscad > > polymake (*) > > pynac (*) > > python-fpylll (*) > > python-gmpy2 (*) > > rasqal > > sagemath (*) > > sirocco (*) > > texlive-base > > why (*) > > > > Wow, I didn't realize how many packages I work with that consume > > mpfr. > > That makes 16 out of 41, so I can manage moving 40% of the mpfr- > > using > > packages over to version 4 all by myself. And, truth be told, > > there > > are 4 more on that list that I've committed changes to at one point > > or > > another, so I've had my fingers on 50% of them. Good grief. > > > > Is somebody working on this already, and if so, what have you > > accomplished so far, and what are your future plans? How can I > > help? > > -- > > Jerry James > > http://www.jamezone.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Hi Jerry. > > I, too, am wondering this, as it has been a long while since my last > attempt was rejected. The last time I spoke to the package > maintainer, > he had plans to ship the new MPFR 4 as a separate package from the > MPFR > 3 release, but that was some time ago. > > I am a bit less busy now, so am happy to just get on with it myself, > but, looking through the packager documentation, I am having trouble > finding any Fedora tutorials and guidelines on doing this. I'm not > even > sure if I am able to package another version of a library if I am not > the maintainer of the original. > > Can somebody provide some guidance on this? > > Regards, > James (jamesturner246). > I should be more specific. By 'this' I mean packaging a library which already exists in Fedora, but is of lower version. -- James Paul Turner University of Sussex Arpra: Arbitrary-Precision Range Analysis https://github.com/arpra-project/arpra _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
