Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:05 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:29:11PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Did you receive this email or any of this thread? It's now more than two weeks old, and I'd really like to upload a new PETSc 2.3.0 ASAP. So upload it? If you've

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Joerg, Did you receive this email or any of this thread? It's now more than two weeks old, and I'd really like to upload a new PETSc 2.3.0 ASAP. If you didn't see it, the discussion was on debian-release, archive at http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/11/msg00107.html , then Steve

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:29:11PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Did you receive this email or any of this thread? It's now more than two weeks old, and I'd really like to upload a new PETSc 2.3.0 ASAP. So upload it? If you've replied to the REJECT message with appropriate reasons why the

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 17:50 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:57:36PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Well, I think the factor there is that we usually want users to upgrade to the latest kernel automatically, whereas users of petsc usually can't auto-upgrade to

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 00:22 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:53:57AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: For that matter, why is it important that Debian provide support for coinstallability with older packages that are, evidently, not important enough

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:57:36PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Well, I think the factor there is that we usually want users to upgrade to the latest kernel automatically, whereas users of petsc usually can't auto-upgrade to the new API. Okay, then what about octave, another empty

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, Adam C Powell IV wrote: * There is broad consensus for versioned -dev packages (e.g. Thomas Viehmann's precedent, Junichi's libpkg-guide), particularly for this case where both the Debian alternatives system and PETSC_DIR mechanism allow users to select

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:53:57AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: For that matter, why is it important that Debian provide support for coinstallability with older packages that are, evidently, not important enough themselves to be supported by Debian? In contrast, libxml-dev has

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 01:46:04AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Steve Langasek] python-dev provides an interface that packages can build-depend on which gives them both /usr/bin/python, and a set of development tools from the corresponding version of python. This is not analogous to

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 23:03 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:15:28PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:59 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: I understand that, and the whole proposal. And it will break a lot of things for many of my users, who

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:59 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: [redirecting this to -devel; discussions of ftp team NEW queue policies are off-topic for -release.] Sorry, my mistake. I'm adding debian-beowulf because that's where some of PETSc's users are. On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:13:47PM

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:15:28PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:59 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: I understand that, and the whole proposal. And it will break a lot of things for many of my users, who need to use old versions of the -dev packages at the same

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Steve Langasek] python-dev provides an interface that packages can build-depend on which gives them both /usr/bin/python, and a set of development tools from the corresponding version of python. This is not analogous to petsc-dev, which only depends on the versioned -dev package. The only

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
[redirecting this to -devel; discussions of ftp team NEW queue policies are off-topic for -release.] On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:13:47PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: And thats what I asked for, yes. Drop the version from -dev|-dbg|-doc, use the shlib system for the rest (which makes