Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?
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On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:48:46PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On Saturday 08 July 2006 12:09, 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.
>
> Could you please be a bit more specific? Which two applications are you
> talking about?
>
xmgrace (package name grace) and ddd. For both it is not possible to enter
text into their console, or into the pop-up windows (xmgrace).
> As a side note, there is no stable release of debian for amd64 architecture.
> Your criticism would be justified if you see the above mentioned problems in
> a stable release of Debian. Please see http://www.debian.org/ports/ for a
> list of architectures supported by Debian. If you are using testing/unstable
> distributions, the applications are bound to break sooner or later.
>
Your point is well taken. I have just posted something about this. Because there
is no stable AMD64 release for Debian, we are at the mercy of a moving target.
Interestingly, Fedora Core has exactly the same problems in a nominally stable
release.
> thanks
> raju
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