On 10/03/2013 09:10, Julien Puydt wrote: > Le 09/03/2013 11:09, Sylvestre Ledru a écrit : >> On 09/03/2013 10:14, Julien Puydt wrote: >>> Package: maxima >>> Version: 5.29.1-1 >>> >>> The maxima used in sage is built with ecl, while the sage in debian >>> isn't. That will of course be a problem to package sage ; a very simple >>> fix would be to just compile maxima with ecl in debian. >>> >>> But of course, simple doesn't mean correct : I saw #661803 where someone >>> asks for an sbcl-built maxima, so the situation is going to be a pain if >>> each and everyone wants maxima built against some variant of common >>> lisp... >>> >>> I don't know how to handle the situation gracefully, so I open this bug >>> CCing debian-science to discuss the matter. >> Usually, during the package creation workflow, you rebuild the >> application against the various implementation and you provide: >> maxima-implementationX >> maxima-implementationY >> maxima-implementationZ >> >> It takes a X time more time to build and it is harder to maintain: paths >> have to be different or packages have to conflict one against the other >> (causing issues for the packages depending on this). >> (example: hdf5) > > More time to build, bigger size in the repository I don't think these are real issues.
> and a general pain, This one is :p Sylvestre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
