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 andr...@an3as.eu wrote: [Reply-To set to debian-devel because this topic belongs

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 r...@debian.org 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

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 mean to

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 Ändern! -- To

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 think

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

2009-09-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org 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

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

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.

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 stable and

Re: Auto Backporting

2009-09-25 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: IMHO this problem is not really Debian Science or Blends related and the idea to handle backports analog to non-free autobuilds sounds quite reasonable - but in this case we *really* make it analog tp non-free which works with a debian/control field

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 candidates for

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 inside

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

2009-09-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org [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

Re: Auto Backporting

2009-09-25 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Frank Küster wrote: For some teTeX (or older TeXLive?) packages, I've used a sarge-backport (or whatever the stable version was) target in debian/rules. It added a changelog entry with backport version number, and it switched some patches and build-deps (in particular, poppler wasn't