Re: ROOT and repositories

Dear Axel,

On 03/29/2010 06:25 PM, Axel Naumann wrote:
> Thiemo Nagel wrote on 03/29/2010 06:00 PM:
>> (Cc'ing Christian Holm Christensen, the maintainer of Debian's ROOT
>> packages.)
>
> Yes, you're correctly pointing out that Debian is the lucky platform,
> where the situation is a *lot* better than for any other distro.

I'm not aware of the status of other distros, but to my mind, Debian support doesn't look very good. ROOT v5.18 has been removed from testing:

http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/root-system/news/20090829T164104Z.html

There was an upload of ROOT v5.24 to unstable in October 2009, but many issues are blocking the migration to testing:

http://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=root-system

I'm not aware of all the details of Debian's release process, but I think it is safe to assume that if these problems aren't fixed soon, the upcoming Debian release will be without ROOT.

> Christian is providing packages on a best effort basis for many years now.

I am most grateful for his work, especially since Fons has pointed out, that it was a huge effort.

>> Having said that, distributions might be more eager to pick up ROOT if
>> it would adhere to standards more (FHS comes to mind...) making
>> packaging easier.
>
> Last time I checked that was not an issue, thanks to our configure
> script.

So my knowledge is probably outdated. ROOT has come a long way...

Cheers!

Thiemo

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