Dear Release Team; maxima 5.13.0-3.2 was an NMU instigated by me, that used SBCL to build maxima. This fixed several (important and serious) bugs, but left maxima with a tight versioned dependency on sbcl, and restricted maxima to building on alpha, amd64, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, and sparc. maxima 5.15.0-2 is a version by the maintainer Camm McGuire using GCL to build. This version contains fixes for the same bugs, but builds (in principle; alpha buildd is still catching up) on all of the "non-red" architectures on http://release.debian.org/lenny/arch_qualify.html. Because of better portability, and the fact that the new version is not an NMU, I would like to request a freeze exception for maxima. Camm is in agreement, but is offline for a couple of a weeks. I hesitate to post his (entirely innocuous) private email, but I can if that is necessary. David bremner@unb.ca / bremner @ IRC
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