[1209] in athena10
Re: Building our own mit-scheme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Tue Feb 24 19:54:40 2009
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:51:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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This is in no way an MIT-specific issue; we should just get this fixed
upstream. Since the current package in intrepid is completely unusable,
it should not be hard to get this problem fixed in the intrepid release.
-Tim Abbott
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> 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
>
