Just for clarification. I believe that patch Thomas refers to was believed to be causing issues building the package for Ubuntu. The patch found to cause the computation error was moreinformativeappstart.patch or something like that. On May 13, 2012 3:25 PM, "Thomas Ward" <tew...@trekweb.org> wrote:
> Steffen, the patch reported to have the problem, the > 'parse_issues.patch' exists in the Quantal package, and the Debian > package (I dissected the package myself, its still there). > > Backporting to older than Precise may be a tiny bit difficult, but > before I help out wiht the backports to Oneiric and earlier, it has to > be backported to Precise. > > I'm working on the paperwork now, but i have to finish fixing my dev > environment. Once I fix my development environment, i'll test a no- > changes backport to Precise, and then from there work my way onto > Oneiric. Natty is going out when Quantal gets released, so I will look > into backporting to that, but the backport priority order on that for me > is as follows: > > 1) Precise > 2) Oneiric > 3) Natty > 4) Lucid > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991179 > > Title: > 7.0.24 "computation error" bug > > Status in “boinc” package in Ubuntu: > Fix Released > > Bug description: > Hi. Repository versions 7.0.24, (I assume 7.0.25) and 7.0.26 have a > known bug which affects users with various hardware running Ubuntu > 12.04. The bug makes the boinc software unable to process any work- > units. > > This is a known bug by a growing group of S@H Boinc users running > Ubuntu 12.04 and other Debain variants. > > As soon as there is a version out which overcomes this bug, the > repository package may want to be changed. > > Thanks. > > [edit] it seems this bug is only caused by the repository installs of > Boinc. When one installs Boinc from the Berkeley website the issue does not > exist. > Also, the bug only seems to exist for seti@home users, apparently all > other projects are unaffected? (I'm now curious it may affect "Quake > Catcher Network") > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/991179/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991179 Title: 7.0.24 "computation error" bug To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/991179/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
