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Re: Can we add debathena-thirdparty as a dependency of

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Apr 14 02:05:11 2009

Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:01:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
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Since the SRU for getting a working mit-scheme on Intrepid seems to be 
going nowhere, I haven't seen the guy who said he'd deal with the bug on 
IRC, and I imagine the entire Ubuntu project has more pressing things than 
SRUs for Intrepid to deal with this weak, I've uploaded a version of 
debathena-thirdparty-languages that doesn't have mit-scheme to -proposed. 
If/when mit-scheme works on Intrepid (or when we move our focus to 
Jaunty), we can re-add it trivially.

Tomorrow, after the existing debathena-cluster in -proposed gets released, 
I intend to upload a version that has debathena-thirdparty as a 
dependency, and move that to production by the end of the week. This means 
that all the cluster Debathena machines will install debathena-thirdparty 
and its dependencies when they take that update. I don't believe there 
were objections to this when I raised it a few weeks back, other than that 
we should make sure that mit-scheme eventually gets to clusters. If any 
others have developed, please let me know soon.

On a tangential note, if anyone has a Jaunty system sufficiently close to 
what clusters are like, I'd be interested in knowing how well 
debathena-thirdparty's dependencies are satisfied or if we need to do any 
wrestling. (`aptitude -s install debathena-thirdparty` should do this.)

-- 
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:

> I just moved my most recent fixes to debathena-thirdparty to production as 
> discussed in yesterday's -proposed report, and debathena-thirdparty is now 
> installable on cluster machines. mit-scheme remains uninstallable, but should 
> be fixed Real Soon Now, per https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341832 , and at 
> that point we can make the package a dependency instead of a recommendation. 
> The rest of the uninstallable packages are libraries that I think we 
> discussed already and have decided we're fine with ignoring for now.
>
> I've pasted the output of aptitude below: the important point is that the 
> package is now installable. Can we go ahead and add -thirdparty as a 
> dependency of cluster, so this software is installed the next time cluster 
> systems update?
>
> [aptitude output snipped]

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