On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 09:55:49PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: > The suite autodock (docking small molecules onto a macromolecule) is a > GNU fast evolving code. In Debian testing we find in fact the latest > version 4.3. In Debian stable the autodock version is at 4.0, which is > no more in use, drastically obsolete. Why do you consider it obsolete? Is the old version no longer functional? Does it use an outdated file format? Does it output broken results? Does it have a security bug? If the only reason it's "obsolete" is because there is a newer version with more features, then you're probably not going to find a lot of support for adding new versions to stable. > What that means? That one tries with binary offered by autodock. It > may well not run, and in fact it does not on my > amd6a/dualopteron-based machine. The upstream binaries are for i386 and ia64. Neither one of those is amd64, although it's possible that the i386 binary may run with ia32-libs installed. > I (vaguely) know the reasons for all that, being intrinsic to the > rules of Debian. However, it remains that such deb compilations are a > waste of time from both the side of the maintainers and the users. I > hope a day will come when a general arrangement will be found to save > time from both sides. If you think the package should not be included in a stable release, feel free to contact the package maintainer. The volatile archive may be a more appropriate place for this. It's really up to the maintainers whether they want to maintain it in volatile vs. stable. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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