[6212] in Release_7.7_team
Re: MIT Scheme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Tue Feb 17 15:30:18 2009
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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:29:05 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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(I'm adding debathena@ to the CC because this is the sort of thing that
someone looking to get involved in the project should jump on - it'll be
good experience for someone interested in learning about the Ubuntu process)
So, we're almost certainly not going to get this fixed in Intrepid. If
it's going to be fixed for Jaunty, the window of opportunity is
exceedingly short - Jaunty Feature Freeze happens on Thursday, at which
point it's going to become harder to get changes in.
That being said, given that the package is completely broken, we
probably have a better chance of getting a freeze exception.
If someone wants to fix mit-scheme on Ubuntu, we need to sync the
package back in from Debian and get it to build.
There are currently Ubuntu-specific changes in the mit-scheme package.
Since nobody in the Ubuntu development team seems to care about the
package, it hasn't gotten merged back into the changes in Debian in,
well, years at this point.
The first thing to do is to try and merge the newer Debian packages back
into Ubuntu. See <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/Merging> for
documentation on the process.
From my understanding of the current situation, I would expect that a
successful merge will fix both LP #288000 and LP #217792 - be sure to
close them in your changelog entry.
Once you have the merge done, and you're trying to get it uploaded, or
if you just need help, you should definitely drop by the #ubuntu-devel
channel on irc.freenode.net. I've had very good experience getting
things fixed very quickly by asking for them on IRC.
- Evan
Alex T Prengel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's at least one MIT subject that explicitly prefers MIT Scheme to
> DrScheme, so it's worth some (but not excessive) effort to make this work
> on Athena 10.
>
> Alex
>
