Hello: For computational chemistry on the stable amd64 I needed yesterday MPICH2. As the deb package is only in testing, I compiled MPICH2 for stable, but the parallelized program needs python2.6, only available in testing. I doubt I am able enough to compile python.
I can't move to testing because I am not allowed to do that not only for the risk of testing distributions for computational work but also because older key computational package do not run on testing. Question: would installing python2.6 on lenny from unstable be safe enough by using apt-pinning? I have no system expert here. I would be responsible for damage to the software. Otherwise, do you know a distribution of linux that overcomes such problems by making some key recent packages available for their stable version? I could suggest to move to that because of recurring problems for us. Thanks francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktilyfrup-hwlabven8h2_akiwxnfauwqzw3dn...@mail.gmail.com