[1171] in athena10
Re: MIT Scheme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Thu Feb 19 03:27:12 2009
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:26:10 -0500
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: debathena@mit.edu
Cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
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If someone here on debathena@ wants to start getting involved in
Debathena development, or just learn more about Debian packaging and
the Ubuntu process, this is a good opportunity.
If you come to the SIPB office or to -c debathena you should be able
to find someone to answer questions, which you'll definitely want to
ask if you don't have a lot of experience with Debian already.
Greg
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 03:29:05PM -0500, Evan Broder wrote:
> (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
> >
