Re: Packages to upgrade before the freeze
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Charles Plessy wrote:
The bug you cite is from me, and I am able to build Arb by myself.
Importantly, I built Arb to "just give it a try", for a project I do on
my free time (and which is stalled until I package emboss 4.0.0, because
I would like to verify that the strange handling of "N"s in the
numbering of the sequences is a bug of 2.8.0 or a feature of all
releases). I filed the wishlist bug mostly for the sake of signalling
that building on ppc is possible (this was unsure at the time): as I
already built it, I do not need you to build it for me ;)
:) Great. Please note that upstream told me that they doubt ARB
will run on 64 bit architectures.
In my case, I think that my project of "making Debian the best platform
for multiple sequence alignment in the world" is 80 % done, and when it
will be 100 %, I will prepare a news release wich can be used on the
debian website, and in many other places such as scientific newsgroups
and forums. Definitely, when Michael will be satisfied of his work for
medical imaging, he can do the same. Improvements of the CDD and the
metapackages are also the kind of things we can promote.
Definitely. I have to admit that I was really happy that you were
that busy on Debian-Med list when I was occupied by other non-Debian
work. This gave Debian-Med a new spin.
PS: About non-free, there are people on debian-science who discuss about
the opportunity of making a separate debian-science autobuilt
repository. In that case, it could make sense to relocate packages such
as Arb there: we would lose the bts (unless they implement one),
If I understand you right this might be an extra repository. If I
upload ARB for i386 we will profit from the BTS as we do now and
users of other architectures can use the packages from the autobuilders.
but
would gain autobuildig (they seem to be OK with non-DFSG programs such
as the "do not make money with my work" softwares). In any case, neither
non-free nor this yet to be born repository are part of Debian...
I'm in favour of non-free autobuilders and I think I expressed this
in several discussions of debian-devel over the past years.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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