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Re: Debian/Ubuntu Repositories

 

Ok, so it should all boil down to waiting a few days (hopefully).
I think I will follow this waiting policy, hoping that in the
meanwhile the python 2.4 vs 2.5 issue gets sorted out.
I understand this must be a pain for the maintainers of dolfin!
Cheers

Lorenzo

On 19/09/2007, LUK ShunTim <shuntim.luk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Lorenzo Isella wrote:
> > Hello Åsmund
> > I think there is a misunderstanding here: I left as a comment that I am
> > using Debian unstable, but actually I am using testing, if you look  in
> > detail at the repositories' web addresses.
> > I noticed the following: for debian libumfpack4 is "there":
> > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libumfpack4
> > but for testing something funny happens:
> > http://packages.debian.org/testing/libumfpack4
> > Now, I am finding out now about virtual packages, so I won't be much
> > help here.
>   > Even in stable there is a "normal" package:
> > http://packages.debian.org/stable/libumfpack4
>
> Hello Lorenzo,
>
> It's libsuitesparse which provides libumfpack4 but unfortunately when I
> checked it last night at home on an i386 box, it provides libumfpack4
> without a version, while dolfin requires a version number. These little
> differences between debian and ubuntu sometimes make you mad. :-(
>
> In official debian, packages will migrate from unstable/sid to testing
> after some time if no critical bugs are found.
>
> Regards,
> ST
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