Re: Ubuntu patches for DDs
Thomas Weber wrote:
> Hi Jordan,
> Am Dienstag, den 10.01.2006, 11:28 -0800 schrieb Jordan Mantha:
>
>> * At http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTUScience I have set up links under
>>"Ubuntu and Debian Packages" to lists that I have generated that show
>>the differences between Debian and Ubuntu for the science, math, and tex
>>sections. Direct links are:
>> http://tiber.tauware.de/~laserjock/math_list.html
>> http://tiber.tauware.de/~laserjock/science_list.html
>> http://tiber.tauware.de/~laserjock/tex_list.html
>>>From these lists one can easily see what packages have been changed by
>>Ubuntu (22 in math, 26 in science, and 5 in tex) and what packages have
>>been packaged for Ubuntu but not Debian (5 in math, 0 in science, and 4
>>in tex). If there is something that you would like add to these lists
>>let me know and I will see what I can do.
>
>
> Well, thanks for your work and the page.
> I have one question about the build logs linked from there:
> Is my interpretation of
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~lamont/buildLogs/k/koctave/0.65-2/
> correct, that koctave fails to build for almost 9 months? This wouldn't
> be too surprising, given that its upstream is inactive since 2004, but
> then I wonder wether koctave is of any use.
>
> Could somebody with an Ubuntu system here try wether koctave is actually
> installable/usable under Ubuntu?
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>
Thomas,
Thanks for catching that. You are correct in your interpretation.
Apparently koctave was taken from apt-get.org and uploaded it for Hoary.
I asked the main Kubuntu dev and he said it was a cdbs issue and
uploaded a fixed version. Koctave now builds on everything but ia64 in
Ubuntu. I just installed it and it seems to run fine.
-Jordan
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