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Please unblock package mgltools-utpackages
Fixed RC bug #592417.
unblock mgltools-utpackages/1.5.4.cvs.20100912-1.1
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On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 17:58 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 07:53:06PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 18:41:55 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 16:45 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > > > Please unblock package mgltools-utpackages
> > > >
> > > > Fixed RC bug #592417.
> > >
> > > Thanks for applying Tim's patch. The source debdiff ends up with a
> > > diffstat of
> > >
> > > 56 files changed, 36261 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > due to the appearance of a bunch of files in UT*DIST directories, which
> > > appear to be SWIG-generated; those should probably be tidied up in the
> > > clean target.
> > >
> > Ping?
>
> I'm not planning on doing any more work on mgltools-utpackages.
>
> In addition, the maintainer emailed to Bug #592417 that he prefers to
> simply remove the package from squeeze:
>
> thank you all for caring for the mgltools, but I think this is all
> too late and too uncertain for us to proceed for squeeze. I already
> got this confirmed by the release managers. We should now bet on
> backports and I'll have autodocktools and mgltools-* removed from
> squeeze. This shall
>
> a) help us by having only the latest versions of the mgltools with
> Debian
>
> b) prevent us from shipping something that most certainly has more
> issues, still, than the ones now corrected for.
>
> Steffen can fill you in.
and indeed the packages are no longer in Squeeze, so closing this
request.
Regards,
Adam
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