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Re: ROOT 5.32/00 for Debian Squeeze



Hi all again,

	just a comment. Packages on the Cern repo are made for unstable release, 
while Ricardo ones are for stable release ... a sort of big difference 
concerning dependences.

Cheers,

	Antonio


On Tuesday 10 January 2012 15:18:43 Steffen Möller wrote:
> On 01/10/2012 03:06 AM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > Hello Ricardo,
> > 
> > Le mercredi 04 janvier 2012 à 09:20 -0800, Ricardo Yanez a écrit :
> >> Hi everyone,
> >> 
> >> I have created a repository with the latest ROOT pro version (5.32.00)
> >> for Squeeze (i386, powerpc64 upcoming). The packages are built by me by
> >> applying various patches to the ROOT distributed Debian build scripts.
> >> 
> >> I have made this effort due to an increase demand by me and students to
> >> be able to have the latest ROOT on our computers.
> >> 
> >> I do really hope and prefer ROOT could find its way back to Debian.
> >> Until that glorious day, I will strive keep a stable repository with
> >> whatever version of ROOT happens to be in production mode at the time of
> >> the next Debian freeze.
> > 
> > Is it a sponsoring request for an upload of ROOT in Debian ?
> > 
> > If yes, could you commit it into the Debian Science repository ?
> 
> http://lcg-heppkg.web.cern.ch/lcg-heppkg/debian/ Thanks Sylvestre
> There have been quite a few efforts to package/upload/maintain ROOT.
> 
> The last was by Yngve in the context of
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Geant4 from what I understood.
> Everyone is too busy with too many things, though.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Steffen


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