Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-11-24 Thread Manuel Prinz
Hi Francesco! Am Dienstag, den 24.11.2009, 09:04 +0100 schrieb Francesco Pietra: > 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? Not as far as I know. If it's just for this package, I can send you the backpo

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-11-24 Thread Francesco Pietra
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 wrote: > [Reply-To set to debian-devel because this topic belongs here.] > > On Fri,

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:56:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > 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 me

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 05:40:58PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > Shouldn't checking if Build-Depends are satisfiable in stable be enough? > > > And if it doesn't build that way, I'd say there's a bug in the package > > > anyways, because it should b

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Shouldn't checking if Build-Depends are satisfiable in stable be enough? > > And if it doesn't build that way, I'd say there's a bug in the package > > anyways, because it should bump some build dependencies. > > build-deps are not necessarily runtime

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 09:24:46AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > Sounds like you think it's a good idea. Why not do it and let us know > how you get on? One point for you beeing the first raising this killer argument. ;-) Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de Klarmachen zum Ă„ndern! -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Andreas Tille said: > 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. Sounds like you

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:39:20PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:06:15PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:56:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > So in short: we should choose the "well-defined" subset of packages > > > which are candid

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Mike Hommey [090925 16:06]: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:56:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > 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 fiel

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:06:15PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:56:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > So in short: we should choose the "well-defined" subset of packages > > which are candidates for autobackporting according to their feature to > > be buildable insi

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:06:15PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:56:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > 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 st

Re: Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-25 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:56:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > 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. Sh

Auto Backporting (Was: Backports of scientific packages)

2009-09-25 Thread Andreas Tille
[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 ba