Hello: As the initial trigger of these interventions, may I ask if anything has been done to provide version 4.0 of GROMACS for amd64 lenny? thanks francesco pietra
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > [Reply-To set to debian-devel because this topic belongs here.] > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:58:00PM +0200, Manuel Prinz wrote: >> >> Yes. I like the idea but we simply can't rebuild everything from the >> task pages of these blends since there are also tools from KDE or GNOME >> which would mean to backport quite a lot of unrelated stuff. Also, >> packages with code in interpreted language can almost always be used >> directly from testing. But I think auto-building could work for a >> well-defined subset of packages. > > IMHO this problem is not really Debian Science or Blends related and the > idea to handle backports analog to non-free autobuilds sounds quite > reasonable - but in this case we *really* make it analog tp non-free which > works with a debian/control field > > XS-Autobuild: yes > > So why not using a similar field > > XS-Autobackport: yes > > ? Well, it's definitely not that easy but I see a quite large set of > packages (specifically in the Debian Science field) which perfectly > compiles against Build-Depends of stable. If we could handle this set > automatically for a first shot and think later about those packages > which need Build-Depends which are not available in stable this would > be an interesting thing. > > So in short: we should choose the "well-defined" subset of packages > which are candidates for autobackporting according to their feature to > be buildable inside stable and using an control field to mark the > packages that way. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > Klarmachen zum Ändern! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org