On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Tom Downes <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm not a debian developer, just a user. But I think the debian backports
> team is pretty open to as rapid a development timeline as the package
> maintainer (you) wants.
>
> http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/
>
I will take a look at that.
>
> The main thing that jumps out at me is:
>
> "To guarantee an upgrade path from stable+backports to the next stable,
> the package should be in testing." I also note that Jessie is still at
> 1.2.5.
>
> The Condor/LIGO team is also interested in your RPM release. In fact, we
> just installed 1.2.8 site-wide at the California Institute of Technology on
> a cluster running Scientific Linux 6. Do you have a 2.x RPM that ought to
> be compatible?
>
I will be generating the RPMs as well. I do not have access to Scientific
Linux 6, so I can't be so sure about the compatibility, but if I had to
guess, it should be fine.
>
> --
> Tom Downes
> Associate Scientist and Data Center Manager
> Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> 414.229.2678
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Kapil Arya <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Good point. The package should work or all both Debian 6 and 7. Soon, I
> will be doing clean builds for both of them.
> >
> > Now, about submitting the package, I don't know how to submit it as
> backports, etc. My plan was to submit it for unstable only, but if you have
> some suggestions on how to do that, I can try to submit as backport to
> Debian 7.
> >
> > Kapil
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Tom Downes <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> I meant "oldstable" rather than "unstable".
> >>
> >> My real point was that most real-world users are on Debian 6 or 7. What
> Debian platforms will the packages you're creating work on?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tom Downes
> >> Associate Scientist and Data Center Manager
> >> Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics
> >> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> >> 414.229.2678
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Kapil Arya <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Previously, I had submitted packages to unstable (sid). Has anything
> changed now?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Tom Downes <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Where are you submitting the debian packages? Under my understanding
> of debian packaging policy, they will not be included in stable or
> unstable. Perhaps in backports?
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Tom Downes
> >>>> Associate Scientist and Data Center Manager
> >>>> Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics
> >>>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> >>>> 414.229.2678
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Kapil Arya <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi Tom,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> That text should have been updated, but I forgot. Thanks for
> catching this. I have now updated the webpage.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I would be submitting the binary packages for Debian for review
> today.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Kapil
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Tom Downes <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The DMTCP front page says that 2.x has been released and that
> binaries are available for Debian.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The text could be interpreted a number of ways but, in any
> instance, I cannot find dmtcp 2.x packages in debian repos or on SF. Is
> such a package available for squeeze and/or wheezy?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Tom Downes
> >>>>>> Associate Scientist and Data Center Manager
> >>>>>> Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics
> >>>>>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> >>>>>> 414.229.2678
> >>>>>>
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