Hi Paul, Thanks for you email. I was actually able to contact Giuseppe Iuculano, the Debian developer who maintains FreeMat package, and he has added the new version to his Debian repository. I suppose this is the source of Ubuntu's FreeMat package. So it looks like everything is on the right track.
Thanks, Chuong On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 16:22 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi Chuong, > > [I added you directly to this mail, because I suspect you are not > subscribed to this mail-list]. > > Chuong Nguyen wrote: > > Dear Ubuntu Developers, > > > > Thank you very much for including FreeMat 3.6 in Karmic. As FreeMat 4.0 > > has been released recently with some very important features, could you > > please consider adding this newer release to Ubuntu's repository? > > I think you are asking to have the package in Karmic updated. Usually, > Ubuntu needs good reasons to do that, as describe at [1]. And if you are > starting that process than the bug tracker of Ubuntu is the place to be [2]. > > > There can be one problem that FreeMat 4.0 requires exactly llvm 2.5, > > amongst other packages, for its JIT acceleration while Karmic only > > includes llvm 2.6 instead. As a work around, Jaunty's llvm 2.5 deb can > > be installed on Karmic, then compiling FreeMat goes without problems. In > > fact, llvm 2.5 source is already included in FreeMat 4.0 source but I > > couldn't compile it. > > Whow, that is usually not acceptable. We don't want copies of libraries > in the archive that are already build stand alone. > > > If you need me provide deb files and add them to Ubuntu's repository, > > please provide some instructions to do that properly or pointers to > > where I can find the information. > > See [3] > > Paul > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates > [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs > [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/GettingStarted > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
