[1208] in athena10
Building our own mit-scheme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Feb 24 19:47:45 2009
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:46:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: debathena@mit.edu
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mit-scheme is broken in Intrepid. MIT uses it in various classes. I want a
mit-scheme that I can do my psets with. It's also a dependency of
debathena-thirdparty (unless it was punted recently?).
It looks like the package hasn't been updated since May 2007 for Gutsy.
Also, Debian has a working mit-scheme package.
According to patches.ubuntu.com, the only difference between Debian's (at
the time) and Ubuntu's versions is that Ubuntu's source package includes a
uuencoded .deb instead of build-depending on itself. I propose to build
our own mit-scheme package by grabbing Lenny's binary package, using it as
the build-dependency in an Intrepid (and possibly Hardy, if that's broken
too) schroot on debuild, and rebuilding the source package.
I also want to upload the resulting package to our repository for
Intrepid in debathena-system. We'll only be shadowing a broken version of
the Ubuntu package; I can pick a version number that guarantees that any
changes Ubuntu makes to it (even if it doesn't sync from Lenny) will
supersede ours.
Is this a good idea? We seem to have done something similar with
libfile-temp-perl in our repository (albeit on a different scale), so I
don't think this is inherently out of scope for our apt repo.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
