Re: please test the numpy package
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> Ondrej Certik <ondrej@certik.cz> (05/02/2009):
>> Ok. But we are wasting people's time. I just got another email from a
>> Ubuntu user that he will rather consider compiling it for Ubuntu's PPA
>> himself, because he cannot use debian experimental. Of course.
>>
>> So he needs to invest his time in the package, I need to invest my
>> time in the package and the result is that it will not even be in
>> unstable anyway. :(
>
> (Following at home, so I might be missing something obvious.)
>
> What's the difference between unstable and experimental from that Ubuntu
> user point of view? If the use of a PPA is what I think it is, he has to
> fetch the source, be it from unstable or from experimental, throw it
> into the *builder of his choice, and upload that to the so-called PPA.
>
> How much time does he need to dget && *builder && dput? That's not what
> I call "invest time in the package".
Ok, you are probably right. So I'll prepare an upload to experimental
and other people can just dget and pbuilder it.
> And not breaking unstable at this point of the release cycle is
> something that matters, especially for late hotfixes that might be
> needed (and there still are such needs).
Yes. I am unhappy that unstable gets frozen for such a long time, but
I understand that with the current setup (e.g. unstable, testing, ..),
there is probably no other way.
Ondrej
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