On Friday 16 November 2007 12:02:03 Nicola Mattei wrote:
> 2007/11/14, Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>:
> > On Tuesday 13 November 2007 18:25:39 Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > > Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > > > Thanks. I think we could open up for a wider testing of these
> > > > packages... where should I announce the availability of these
> > > > packages? I could upload them to debian, but I don't want to break
> > > > existing csound4 users with an untested csound5 upload.
> > >
> > > Its certainly possible to have more tha one version of an application
> > > on a Debian machine. On my laptop I have gcc-3.4, gcc-4.1 and gcc-4.2.
> > >
> > > Would it not be possible to do something similar with csound?
> >
> > It would, but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. After all, csound 5 is
> > supposed to be a drop-in replacement to csound4.
>
> Sure, but 'till there's no version of cecilia available for csound5
> you can't drop (IMHO) csound4 as cecilia is quite a popular package,
> and loosing cecilia would mean a debian regression compared to its
> previous versions.

Hmm, that is a good reason. Any other opinions?

>
> By the way, I'm not able to build your packages from sources on amd64,
> here is the result:
<snip>

What version of scons are you using? Note that 0.97.0d20070918-1 has a known 
bug (see http://bugs.debian.org/4444204).
Now there's another reason for not uploading to debian yet :/


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	Felipe Sateler