* Package name    : levmar
  Version         : 2.4
  Upstream Author : Manolis Lourakis
* URL             : http://www.ics.forth.gr/~lourakis/levmar/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Levenberg-Marquardt nonlinear least squares algorithms

Levmar provides GPL native ANSI C implementations of the Levenberg-Marquardt
optimization algorithm, usable also from C++, Matlab, Perl and Python.
Both unconstrained and constrained (under linear equations
and box constraints) Levenberg-Marquardt variants are included.

Currently, Debian package hugin contains a copy of the levmar sources and it's
also needed for new version of meshlab.

Teemu

Hi!

I have indeed done a little work on packaging levmar for debian but my efforts
stalled in the following places:

* it seems that the upstream developers see levmar as some code you include in
some other project not as a shared library. They have at least started
providing a so-producing makefile, but I'm not sure how committed to binary
compatibility they are.

* I wasn't sure that SONAMEs were being bumped correctly and I don't yet know
enough about SONAMEs to do this confidently on my own, so it slipped down my
priority list somewhat.

* I originally thought that there were several users of levmar already in
debian but when I went looking there appears to only be one (hugin) which is
using a heavily modified, very old internal copy of levmar and the prospects
of getting hugin to use a shared library version of levmar seem slim in the
short term at least.

* I tried to contact the upstream authors of levmar to talk to them about
packaging their library and to start developing a working relationship with
them but never received a reply to my emails.

Having said that, levmar still looks like interesting code and it might be
useful to have it in debian anyway, although the general rule that it's not
worth packaging a library until there is some other package in debian to use
it make me wonder if it's worth it at this stage. Chicken and egg.

I'd like to revisit levmar once squeeze is released and see if hugin can start
using a newer version of levmar as a shared object instead. I'd be looking
for someone with more experience in packaging libraries to help me with this
though.

cheers
Stuart

Hi all!

  I've made a Debianization of levmar package (attached to this email),
  but packaging is pretty awful due to a fact levmar is using
  custom Makefile instead of any build tools.

Thanks, Daniil.

retitle 546202 RFP: levmar -- Levenberg-Marquardt nonlinear least squares
noowner 546202
thanks

Hi,

This is an automatic email to change the status of levmar back from ITP
(Intent to Package) to RFP (Request for Package), because this bug hasn't seen
any activity during the last 6 months.

If you are still interested in adopting levmar, please send a mail to
<control@bugs.debian.org> with:

 retitle 546202 ITP: levmar -- Levenberg-Marquardt nonlinear least squares
 owner 546202 !
 thanks

However, it is not recommended to keep ITP for a long time without acting on
the package, as it might cause other prospective maintainers to refrain from
packaging that software. It is also a good idea to document your progress on
this ITP from time to time, by mailing <546202@bugs.debian.org>.

Thank you for your interest in Debian,

Hi all!

 I've updated levmar debianization to version 2.6, please check an attachment.

Best regards,
Daniil

Using the amazing http://codesearch.debian.net one finds that levmar is
included in rather many source packages in Debian:

freemat: levmar-2.3
hugin: some older version, probably patched
meshlab: levmar-2.3
sextractor: levmar-2.3
starlink-ast: parts of some older version from 2004
stimfit: levmar-2.5
(teem: can be linked with levmar, but apparently is not)

Since most of the packages above are maintained by Debian Science, is there
anyone who would want to take on a simple library package?

All included code is from an older version than the latest levmar-2.6, so
making levmar useful in Debian would require a considerable amount of
forward porting and fixing of upstream sources. On the other hand, having
the same code in six source packages is already a pretty bad case of
duplication.

Best,
Teemu

Hi all,

On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 05:56:14 Teemu Ikonen wrote:
[...]

When I looked at levmar a few years ago I had the distinct impression that its
authors really wanted it to be statically linked. The result of that is the
multitude of different (patched) versions of levmar that you see embedded in
different projects. There's a lot of work to do to convince the upstreams of
freemat, hugin, meshlab, sextractor, starlink-ast, stimfit and teem that they
want to work with a non-patched and up-to-date levmar instead of just
continuing with their own versions.

Levmar upstream does have some support for building a shared object but I
didn't feel confident that sovers would be properly managed and I didn't want
to take on that responsibility myself which is why I abandoned my previous
efforts with levmar too.

(just an added data point for anyone thinking of taking up packaging levmar)

cheers
Stuart

Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@gmail.com> writes:

I started packaging more than a year ago when I packaged sextractor:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/levmar.git

However, I could not get sextractor working with the levmar-2.6, and so
I suspended this.

For starlink-ast, I could however ask upstream about the code. However,
I suspect that they heavily changed it, and it is not trivial to re-use
an existing library.

Best

Ole

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