Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock
Please unblock package boinc and boinc-app-seti Right. Why do I want the two packages to be in unstable. Hm. Firstly, I think the two belong together. The BOINC Debian packages allow everyone to inspect what they run on their machines contacting external servers. And the same for those otherwise uninspectable apps from third parties. Boinc-app-seti is the boinc application with far the widest distribution across platforms. The packages are iconic for what Debian can achieve for platform compatibility. The previous (nicely working) version of SETI was removed when BOINC was removed because MySQL had been removed (the dependency to it has now been removed together with the boinc-server-maker binary package) and the fglrx was not in Wheezy (dependency removed together with the boinc-ati-opencl package). So, please allow SETI back in. It was removed albeit being innocent in the first place. We were nice to the package in the meantime, kept the orig.tar.gz. We now also gave it the opportunity to link against the shared library that the boinc-client kindly provides. With BOINC back in, and me having my key back in the keyring, we saw builds on PowerPC to fail because of altivec being detected but no underlying library to support it being available. New upload needed - this one. The PowerPC issues came together with upstream saying they had issues with the home-built SETI clients, which has now been resolved again. We then thought that together with the fix for the PowerPC we should go for the only slightly changed upstream version. Kibi was kindly allowing BOINC 7.0.27 in, which had ben stalled in unstable, also because of the PowerPC platform albeit for a very different reason, long before the freeze. With much hooray this transition was announced to our Ubuntu downstreamers who were already using 7.0.33 (from our git repository ! ) actively in their PPA and they are happy with it. They wanted to keep all those latest changes that upstream has addressed in ..28-.33 and would not want to go back to .27. Saying it would have fixed many of the issues their Ubuntu early adopters have found. boinc took a dive on popcon http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=boinc when the package was removed from testing. This was very sad to see. 7.0.27 gave it just a small kick back .. wishfully interpreting the graph .. That version gave some serious bit of compatibility for GPU computing that .24 did not yet have. 7.0.33 is especially good for many smallish bit with the user interface, so the Ubuntu folks, which is rather detectable for the regular user. 7.0.27 does not yet provide the libboinc-app which the scientific apps like SETI link against. Previous versions of the scientific apps, like the ones that one would receive through the boinc-client from the respective external project server, were all linked statically. I had considerably disliked that static linking for a long time and am very happy to know this now gone. Please let this development swap over to Wheezy. The more ambitious boinc-server-maker we finally came to accept that it is not up to the standard for being part of the stable release. We'll continue maintaining that for experimental and hope for some success stories on those for Wheezy+1. Cheers, Steffen unblock boinc/7.0.33-1 unblock boinc-app-seti/6.12~svn1385-1 -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
