Comment 12 for bug 1009536

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Dave (xclusive585) wrote : Re: [Bug 1009536] Re: Ubuntu 12.04/7.0.24/ Seti@home

I will attempt this this weekend... thanks Daniel
On Jun 19, 2012 4:26 PM, "Daniel Hahler" <email address hidden> wrote:

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> On 06/19/2012 06:49 AM, Dave wrote:
> > The PPA davea42 refers to is the boinc teams build of Debians SID
> > 7.0.27.
> >
> > ...If only we could see the 7.0.27 package backported into 12.04's
> > repository. Hint Hint
>
> This requires a SRU, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SRU
>
> The diffstat for this (boinc_7.0.24+dfsg-1.dsc to
> boinc_7.0.27+dfsg-3.dsc) is rather huge (without whitespace changes):
> 114 files changed, 6497 insertions(+), 2945 deletions(-)
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> I would be happy to sponsor the upload, but do not like to do the SRU
> "paper work".
>
> Can you help out with that?
>
>
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> http://daniel.hahler.de/
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1009536
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> Title:
> Ubuntu 12.04/7.0.24/ Seti@home
>
> Status in “boinc” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> We already had a bug opened for this issue. But it was marked as "fix
> released" (I don't know why as no change ever happened to the
> repository package)
>
> The Boinc package (7.0.24....precise1) in the 12.04 Ubuntu repository
> doesn't work for seti@home, it just produces "computation errors".
>
> The package needs to be changed, perhaps to Debians SID 7.0.27, or
> backported from Quantal if that package has been confirmed to be in
> good working order.
>
> Currently, 12.04/seti@home and lhc@home users are still unable to run
> Boinc without using the PPA alternatives.
>
>
> -Dave
>
> [Edited for clarity]
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