Request for freeze exception for maxima

2008-08-04 Thread David Bremner
portability, and the fact that the new version is not an NMU, I would like to request a freeze exception for maxima. Camm is in agreement, but is offline for a couple of a weeks. I hesitate to post his (entirely innocuous) private email, but I can if that is necessary. David [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Request for freeze exception for maxima

2008-08-04 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: maxima 5.13.0-3.2 was an NMU instigated by me, that used SBCL to build maxima. This fixed several (important and serious) bugs, but left maxima with a tight versioned dependency on sbcl, and restricted maxima to building on alpha, amd64, i386, mips,

Re: Request for freeze exception for maxima

2008-08-04 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:44:52 +0200]: David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: maxima 5.13.0-3.2 was an NMU instigated by me, that used SBCL to build maxima. This fixed several (important and serious) bugs, but left maxima with a tight versioned dependency on sbcl,