Hi Sean, Alex,

I think I'm the root of the problem here -- I recently submitted an updated 
SBCL, bumping the version from 1.0.33 to 1.0.34, without corresponding with 
Alexander Hansen.  I was quick to submit an update to SBCL because of an 
packaging problem with SBLC unrelated to (x)maxima.

Jesse

On Jan 17, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

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>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I've grown accustomed to the less than elegant way in which I have to 
>> manually purge, rebuild, and reinstall maxima every time sbcl gets updated, 
>> but it appears that this time the process failed. 
>> 
> 
> If you've got a better way to handle it let me know.
> 
> As best as we can tell maxima has to be depend on a particular
> version-revision of whatever LISP is used.  And we don't use a >=
> versioning because we can't assume people are going to use 'update-all';
> it wouldn't do to have a maxima which was built on an earlier sbcl than
> what is currently on the system.
> 
>> I just updated and installed the new sbcl and now maxima refuses to build. 
>> 
>> Technical information follows sig.
>> 
>> Sean
>> 
>> fink -V
>> Package manager version: 0.29.10
>> Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Sat Jan 16 16:18:35 2010, 10.6, x86_64
>> sbcl-1.0.34-1
>> maxima-5.20.1-2
>> 
>> error text: 
>> sudo fink install maxima xmaxima
>> Information about 7994 packages read in 2 seconds.
>> Can't resolve dependency "sbcl (= 1.0.33-1)" for package "maxima-5.20.1-2" 
>> (no
>> matching packages/versions found)
>> Exiting with failure.
>> 
>> 
> 
> This was released without the coordination that we require in this
> circumstance.
> 
> We are supposed to coordinate updates to sbcl and maxima when either the
> version, revision, or both are changed; I received no email about this.
> 
> I'll see about working up an updated package description.
> 
> - -- 
> Alexander Hansen
> Fink User Liaison
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