[Bug 1517243] New: Review Request: grace - Numerical Data Processing and Visualization Tool

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1517243

Bug ID: 1517243
           Summary: Review Request: grace - Numerical Data Processing and
                    Visualization Tool
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
         Component: Package Review
          Severity: medium
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]

COPR: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/baptu/grace/
Description: Grace is a Motif application for two-dimensional data
visualization.
Grace can transform the data using free equations, FFT, cross- and
auto-correlation, differences, integrals, histograms, and much
more. The generated figures are of high quality.  Grace is a very
convenient tool for data inspection, data transformation, and for
making figures for publications.

Fedora Account System Username:baptu

Additional comment: There is already a grace package in fedora. But, with best
of my knowledge, it is no longer
maintained(https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=grace).

[Bug 1517243] Review Request: grace - Numerical Data Processing and Visualization Tool

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1517243

RudraB  changed:

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            Version|rawhide                     |27

[Bug 1517243] Review Request: grace - Numerical Data Processing and Visualization Tool

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Iwicki Artur  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Iwicki Artur  ---
In a situation like this you need not submit a review request. AFAIK you should
first try contacting the maintainer, possibly asking for access to dist-git and
offering to handle the update yourself. Should the current maintainer be
non-responsive, you can file a ticket on releng pagure, requesting to be made
new maintainer.

[Bug 1517243] Review Request: grace - Numerical Data Processing and Visualization Tool

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1517243

--- Comment #2 from RudraB  ---
Iwicki,
Thanks for your reply. Actually, I have raised a bug where the maintainer has
not replied. Also, when I tried to edit the existing spec file, it is too
complicated for me (it includes devel branch as well etc). So I have decided to
make a new built.

[Bug 1517243] Review Request: grace - Numerical Data Processing and Visualization Tool

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Jussi Eloranta  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Jussi Eloranta  ---
The version of grace supplied with fedora 27 is broken. Trying to run it gives:

--> Broken or incomplete installation - read the FAQ!

Using strace to see what it was doing last shows that it is looking for fonts
such as:

fonts/type1/z003034l.pfa
etc.

This is with grace-5.1.25-9.fc27.x86_64. The above font files were supplied
with the grace rpm in fedora 26 (where it worked).

[Bug 1517243] Review Request: grace - Numerical Data Processing and Visualization Tool

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--- Comment #4 from Jussi Eloranta  ---
OK, the missing fonts issue is caused by:

urw-base35-fonts                      noarch  20170801-2.fc27   fedora   9.9 k
     replacing  urw-fonts.noarch 3:2.4-24.fc27

urw-fonts.noarch has the required fonts whereas urw-base35-fonts doesn't and
this kills xmgrace...

[Bug 1517243] Review Request: grace - Numerical Data Processing and Visualization Tool

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--- Comment #5 from RudraB  ---
Jussi, also, there is more to do about the spec. Like, e.g. why should I need
nedit as the text editor?
I am sorry for the late reply, but unfortunately, I have missed the
notification.

[Bug 1517243] Review Request: grace - Numerical Data Processing and Visualization Tool

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--- Comment #6 from Jussi Eloranta  ---
xmgrace does call nedit when you edit or create a set using text editor. So
that is a valid dependence. Of course, one could change nedit to something more
modern like gedit. I think long time ago it used to open a terminal window with
vi (where most people would get stuck), so nedit is an improvement over this
;-)

[Bug 1517243] Review Request: grace - Numerical Data Processing and Visualization Tool

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--- Comment #7 from RudraB  ---
OK, but since the maintainer is not responding to the bug, what is the best bet
now? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1517243#c1 ?

[Bug 1517243] Review Request: grace - Numerical Data Processing and Visualization Tool

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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek  changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG
        Last Closed|                            |2018-02-09 04:42:14

--- Comment #8 from Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek  ---
If you want to carry this forward, you'll need to gain Fedora packager
privileges. Have you done reviews of other packages? Please paste some links
here.

I'll close this bug, because a new review is not necessary. Existing package
needs to be updated instead.