Re: A question about a package
Hi,
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> Yes you can report a bug. Are you also sure it is amd64 only? That
> would be quite surprising. What about alpha or ia64?
Morten has followed this. Maybe we can put some test code to the alpha or
ia64, or sparc64? user list to test it. However, I "think" that sim has
tested it in solaris64 and no problem.
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>
> > - patch the 2.3.0 version and the the debian package ? Morten, is this
> > possible?
>
> AND patch 2.3.0 in sid with just this fix if possible. After some
> testing time ask release to approve it for sarge.
yes, but I think that is the easy way for the debian part and the hard way for
the sim part....
> > - upload a new version before sarge release to have the same version of
> > the amd64 port?
>
> Getting a completly new version through the freeze might be
> difficult. Not without compelling argument.
Ok
> > - have a different version of this package in the amd64 port?
>
> We (amd64 team) would very much like to avoid that. It disrupts
> security support as that version would have to be tracked seperately.
> There seem to be no reverse depends on coin2 (apt-cache rdepend in
> sarge) so we would probably just remove it from amd64 if the bug makes
> it unusable.
Ok, and no separately repository also is not an option ....
Leo
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