[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Fixing atlas on debian/Ubuntu

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le jeudi 10 septembre 2009 à 11:20 +0800, LUK ShunTim a écrit :
> Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > Le mercredi 09 septembre 2009 à 09:22 +0900, David Cournapeau a écrit :
> 
> >> I am unfamiliar with debian release process: once you upload the
> >> package, do people running unstable see their package updated ?
> > Yes and no.
> > With a standard application, yes.
> > Here, no because we are dealing with a massive change of an important
> > library with ABI changes. We will have to handle a transition for
> > packages which are using this library.
> > Moreover, I will have to first upload it into experimental to let the
> > other DD/DM test with their packages.
> 
> Yes, it's my experience as a user that sometimes packages may not get
> into the distributions (quick enough) for various reasons. Would it be
> possible to have it, unofficial of course, in some places like a debian
> maintainer's personal repository or launchpad ppa so that both debian
> and ubuntu users can just apt-get it. I for one would be happy to try
> them out.
Any feedback/tests on this package are most than welcome. I will try do
that!

Sylvestre