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Thanks,
--Jeroen
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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 08:10:02 -0500
To: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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Subject: Re: Bug#167780: 0.3.4 is in testing
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From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 31 March 2005 at 02:35, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
| tags 167780 moreinfo
| thanks
|
| On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:25:15AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04:16:01PM +0000, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
| > > Hi,
| > >
| > > Since quantlib is up to date in testing currently, do you still want
| > > this package to be removed from the arm architecture?
| >
| > Yes.
I believe that this has happened recently (but I was gone on vacation for
the last few days, so something may have changed).
| > If in fact I, as maintainer, have a choice in the matter , then I would like
| > to request the same for the following packages:
| >
| > octave2.1, quantlib, r-base
| >
| > for the
| >
| > arm, m68k
| >
| > architectures. I have spent *way* too much fscking special requests for
| > these smaller + older architecture which are, quite simply, mismatched for
| > these numerically-focussed applications and environments.
|
| Please convince a porter for those architectures to add the right lines
How would I do that? Whenever I discuss this with people from the porting
teams, their attitude usually is "why -- we may as well build it". Which is
wrong, IMHO, as these arches _do_ hold up releases of these packages more
often than I like.
I still need help in this matter.
Regards, Dirk
| to Packages-arch-specific. If I'd remove those now, they'll get built
| and re-uploaded immediately again, so that has no use.
|
| Update this bug if the changes to P-a-s are done.
|
| --Jeroen
|
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| Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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