Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?
Thanks for the resonse. See below.
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:36:25AM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 10:09:56AM -0600, Art Edwards wrote:
> > I have been writing to the list about two applications that
> > are so broken on the AMD64 distribution that they render the
> > box pretty useless. I'm sure one could say that two measly
> > applications are no big deal. However, if you do scientific computation
> > for a living, and two of the primary tools are broken, you now have
> > a rather clumsy paperweight where a computer should be. You could
> > argue that we should simply learn new tools, and we could, but we
> > should really be doing science instead.
>
> > Unless such core pieces as the debugging tool (ddd) and the data display tool
> > (xmgrace) are working, it is dishonest to pretend that the 64-bit version
> > is ready for testing. It would be very nice if you, and other distro's, were
> > to put appropriate caveats on the websites, saying that 64-bit is really not
> > ready for the prime-time desktop. That way, we could make better purchasing
> > decisions.
>
> I don't see any bug reports with greater severity than normal on
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=ddd
> and none of them are by you. Do you have it verifiably failing? Have
> you considered filing a bug?
These bugs are not a debian issue. The packages fail exactly the same way
under Fedora Core 5 (but not Fedora Core 4). They even fail when built from sources.
>
> I don't see the package xmgrace listed at all, nor anything in
> 'apt-cache search xmgrace' -- maybe you can contact the xmgrace
> community and find if there's the usual suspects (a new version, an open
> bug with a workaround, etc)?
>
The package is grace. The executable is xmgrace.
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> Christopher Nelson -- chris@cavein.org
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