From: Sarah Morgensen <iskarian@mgsn.dev>
To: "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
Cc: 31991@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31991: Packages enki and aseba fail. Organizations behind software restructured
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 21:01:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867dfljf8m.fsf@mgsn.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180628092243.6f234cc7@alma-ubu> ("Björn Höfling"'s message of "Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:22:43 +0200 (3 years, 11 weeks, 2 hours ago)")
Hi, just following up on this old bug.
Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> writes:
> I saw that enki fails due to Qt 5.11.
Enki is now building fine.
> Note that aseba doesn't have a good build history anyway:
>
> https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/aseba-1.6.0-0.3b35de8.x86_64-linux/all
> https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/aseba-1.6.0-0.3b35de8.i686-linux/all
> https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/aseba-1.6.0-0.3b35de8.armhf-linux
>
> Anyone using it?
>
> General note:
>
> As far as I know, this package is here for the Thymio robot, not for
> the asaba Framework as such.
>
> In spring 2018, Mobsya (the organisation behind Thymio) decided to go
> their own way, because they don't have the capacity to maintain the
> whole aseba framework as such. Maintainer wanted for the old aseba
> project. See this announcement for more details:
>
> https://github.com/aseba-community/aseba#thymio-and-mobsya-fork
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ijY2dZR2TbSySMqFfbCgG_ifZPGoxrAQaVuZVQZHKlY/edit#
>
> So, in the long term, we should base the package definition on their
> repository:
>
> https://github.com/Mobsya/aseba
>
> They don't have a released version yet. And they pull in a lot more
> dependencies via git.
It looks like they have a released version now (2.2.0, in fact).
There is also the Debian-maintained fork of the original:
https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/aseba
Since aseba continues to fail building, we should either remove it, or
switch to one of those two.
--
Sarah
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