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

[LUK ShunTim]

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.

Thanks very much to both of you for the work,
ST
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