Thanks for the resonse. See below. On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:36:25AM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 10:09:56AM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > > I have been writing to the list about two applications that > > are so broken on the AMD64 distribution that they render the > > box pretty useless. I'm sure one could say that two measly > > applications are no big deal. However, if you do scientific computation > > for a living, and two of the primary tools are broken, you now have > > a rather clumsy paperweight where a computer should be. You could > > argue that we should simply learn new tools, and we could, but we > > should really be doing science instead. > > > Unless such core pieces as the debugging tool (ddd) and the data display > > tool > > (xmgrace) are working, it is dishonest to pretend that the 64-bit version > > is ready for testing. It would be very nice if you, and other distro's, > > were > > to put appropriate caveats on the websites, saying that 64-bit is really > > not > > ready for the prime-time desktop. That way, we could make better purchasing > > decisions. > > I don't see any bug reports with greater severity than normal on > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=ddd > and none of them are by you. Do you have it verifiably failing? Have > you considered filing a bug? These bugs are not a debian issue. The packages fail exactly the same way under Fedora Core 5 (but not Fedora Core 4). They even fail when built from sources. > > I don't see the package xmgrace listed at all, nor anything in > 'apt-cache search xmgrace' -- maybe you can contact the xmgrace > community and find if there's the usual suspects (a new version, an open > bug with a workaround, etc)? > The package is grace. The executable is xmgrace. > -- > Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > The tree in which the sap is stagnant remains fruitless. > -- Hosea Ballou > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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