Maxima and Gerris packages in need of love and attention.

2008-07-05 Thread Chris Walker
I've just been through the physics packages (and some others I use) to see what state they are in, and found a couple of problem packages. Maxima (Symbolic Maths) The debian maxima package is in need of some care and attention if it is to be released with lenny. It has an RC bug filed that

Bug#474909: Build maxima with sbcl for lenny?

2008-07-05 Thread David Bremner
Package: maxima Version: 5.13.0-3.1 Followup-For: Bug #474909 Maybe this is the same bug as #467474? At least it looks the same to me. Although the build failure happens in a slightly different place for me, I still have a FTBFS with gcl 2.6.7-36.1 and gcc 4.3.1-2. It now seems to die the

Re: Bug#474909: Build maxima with sbcl for lenny?

2008-07-05 Thread Chris Walker
David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: maxima Version: 5.13.0-3.1 Followup-For: Bug #474909 Maybe this is the same bug as #467474? At least it looks the same to me. Although the build failure happens in a slightly different place for me, I still have a FTBFS with gcl

Re: Bug#474909: Build maxima with sbcl for lenny?

2008-07-05 Thread Chris Walker
David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip maxima problems] I have the feeling Camm (the maintainer) is really busy right now, but if you could OK the idea of building maxima with sbcl for lenny, that would be great. If that is the case, the RC bugs filed against the following of his