Le Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 08:34:45AM -, yigal.weinstein a écrit :
> well thank you for my introduction by example to Debian/Ubuntu package
> management. I am using 5.11 via checksintall - I know this is a far cry
> from a more formal diff and patches etc. but for personal use it works
> well.
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Charles Plessy wrote:
> [snip]
> there is a very simple way to try to build a package with the new
> upstream version :
>
> [snip unnecessarily long process]
Charles, you do like to take the long way around. There's a tool to do
that for, uupdate. You just run it in the extracted Debian source
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Le Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 05:28:09AM -, yigal.weinstein a écrit :
> So if I am not mistaken you are suggesting that to contribute to
> Ubuntu/Debian I should patch the source file 5.10.0-6ubuntu1 --> 5.11.
> Then if successful I should tell people that I am successful?
Well, there are two possib
Le Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 04:22:16AM -, yigal.weinstein a écrit :
> So you are saying it is better for me to not build a deb file of the
> most recent stable Maxima ( or any package for that matter) which has
> been out for 3 months now and is not in Debian and which I am pretty
> sure I can at l
Le Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:45:11AM -, yigal.weinstein a écrit :
> I know I am writing a lot. But I also realize the above comment doesn't
> make very much sense. The latest Maxima on Sourceforge is 5.11. I am
> interested in building Maxima on a long term basis using the most recent
> versio
Le Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:51:15AM -, William Grant a écrit :
>
> Debian currently only has 5.10, but they'll hopefully have 5.11 in the
> near future. As we sync most packages from Debian, we'll have 5.11
> within a couple of days of Feisty+1 opening for uploads or the Debian
> maintainer upl
yigal.weinstein wrote:
> This is understandable. However I would like to make sure Feisty+1 has
> the latest Maxima is included. I am willing to build, test, what ever
> you need. It is pretty easy.
I'd do it for Feisty+1, certainly. We do our best to ensure we have the
latest versions.
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