Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Le vendredi 25 septembre 2009 à 11:07 +0200, Manuel Prinz a écrit : >> Hi Francesco! > [...] > >> I also vaguely remember there has been a discussion about some "Debian >> Science Backports" before. This would be a cool thing to have, maybe we >> should pick up that discussion again. Though I fear we might lack the >> manpower to do that currently. Can anyone catch me up on this? > I am thinking about doing so for Scilab and its (reverse or not) dependencies. > >>> Who is running a number-crunching machine on squeeze? >> Well, I do on some. ;) > Yep but as DD, you are not a good example ;)
Me, too! The question is indeed a valid one. For larger compute clusters, "stable" indeed seems to mean "invariant". And while as scientists we always want the very latest, we also want stable compute clusters. This is a dilemma. Would there be a way to auto-backport packages that are flagged in this respect? Similarly to some non-free packages being explicitly allowed to be auto-built? Basically all packages in debian-science and debian-med are very likely candidates, IMHO. Many greetings Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
