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/
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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