Bunch of newly orphaned packages up for grabs

[Jose' Matos]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 14:16, Quentin Spencer wrote:
>
> Does grace require fftw 2.x, or can it work with 3.x?

  fftw 2.x and fftw 3.x are different and incompatible releases. In the 
particular case of grace it only works with 2.x. I am not sure if the future 
major release (6.0) will work with 3.x but that is not true now.

> The 3.x releases 
> of fftw are maintained by me in Extras as fftw3. I wouldn't mind seeing
> the old one go away if nobody needs it and making fftw3 -> fftw. The
> fftw 3.x series has been around for over 2 1/2 years. At what point does
> it make sense to move the old fftw to a name like fftw2? Are there any
> conventions for this sort of thing?

  Clearly I would not mind to have this change. It makes more sense to me. I 
would like also to see this as policy written by FESCO. But that is just 
me. :-)

> -Quentin

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José Abílio