Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?
Art Edwards wrote: 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. ddd and grace are in Debian testing (etch) amd64 and work fine. So where exactly is the issue? We use an mixture of testing and unstable here with the following priority setting /etc/apt/preferences: Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: -1 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: -2 So, if a package is still brocken in testing (as parts of gnome at least at box installation time), we take it from unstable with apt-get install PACKAGE -t unstable, including its dependencies. So far, we observerd no major issues. -- Oliver Rother, Department of Space Physics, University of Kiel, Leibnizstr. 11/505a, D-24118 Kiel phone: +49 (0)431 880 4802, fax: +49 (0)431 880 3968 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ieap.uni-kiel.de/et -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?
Jimmy Tang wrote: At the risk of imposing what we do at our work place onto your work flow, i find that users generally should have access to better debuggers/profilers than what ships with standard gnu distros. Well, if you intend to start a flame war on the lists... but enough on that. presumably if you are doing scientific computations, you probably have access to a commercial compiler? Oh, we do. Consider an project with a timeline of many years or even decades of years. would you choose a non onepn source (commercial) compiler/debugger for that project? I'm pretty sure, you won't. also shouldnt users be using programs like xmgrace Talking about commerical applications from your point of view - why use free software for data analysis when powerful commercial packages like IDL are available? Olli -- Oliver Rother, Department of Space Physics, University of Kiel, Leibnizstr. 11/505a, D-24118 Kiel phone: +49 (0)431 880 4802, fax: +49 (0)431 880 3968 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ieap.uni-kiel.de/et -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-devel-digest Digest V99 #1154
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