Le Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 04:22:16AM -0000, yigal.weinstein a écrit : > So you are saying it is better for me to not build a deb file of the > most recent stable Maxima ( or any package for that matter) which has > been out for 3 months now and is not in Debian and which I am pretty > sure I can at least for my computer i386 using the appropriate methods. > But it is better to for me to download the source of an older version, > build it and use it? Where is the logic? I am sure there is some but I > don't get it. It is not like I won't be interested in giving my package > back to the Debian maintainer of Maxima. > > My question is why should I have to wait for a Debian maintainer who > might be very busy? Instead I can build the new package and give it to > him?
Hi, I am really sorry to have been unclear. Indeed, if you know how to deal with debian source pacakges (the format, not the distribution), do not wait and make one for yourself to build maxima 5.11 .deb binary packages. This is the quickest way to get what you want. The easiest starting point is the current source package, which is 5.10. With some (hopefully easy) work, you can turn it into a 5.11 source package http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/source/maxima Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- Why not use 5.11 https://launchpad.net/bugs/92715 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
