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? 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)? -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The tree in which the sap is stagnant remains fruitless. -- Hosea Ballou -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]