Comment 130 for bug 991179

The MOTU SRU team isn't going to support an SRU in this case (because of a version change, according to the MOTUs I spoke to yesterday). They are more likely to be willing to support a sync to Quantal for the Debian version of the package, and then a backport of that to Precise (the repository that will contain the updated BOINC is therefore precise-backports).

On May 11, 2012, at 5:50 AM, LocutusOfBorg <email address hidden> wrote:

> Boinc 7.0.27+dfsg-0 building in quantal.
> https://code.launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/boinc
>
> So I think we are ready for a SRU just now.
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991179
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> Title:
> 7.0.24 "computation error" bug
>
> Status in “boinc” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Hi. Repository versions 7.0.24, (I assume 7.0.25) and 7.0.26 have a
> known bug which affects users with various hardware running Ubuntu
> 12.04. The bug makes the boinc software unable to process any work-
> units.
>
> This is a known bug by a growing group of S@H Boinc users running
> Ubuntu 12.04 and other Debain variants.
>
> As soon as there is a version out which overcomes this bug, the
> repository package may want to be changed.
>
> Thanks.
>
> [edit] it seems this bug is only caused by the repository installs of Boinc. When one installs Boinc from the Berkeley website the issue does not exist.
> Also, the bug only seems to exist for seti@home users, apparently all other projects are unaffected? (I'm now curious it may affect "Quake Catcher Network")
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