Debian Bug report logs - #593614
Request: upgrade PLT Scheme to Racket

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Richard Lawrence <wyley.r@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Request: upgrade PLT Scheme to Racket

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:33:31 -0700

Package: plt-scheme
Version: 4.0.1-2
Severity: wishlist

PLT Scheme underwent a name change at version 5.0.  The language is now 
called Racket (since it has diverged somewhat from Scheme); the new site 
for the project is:

http://www.racket-lang.org

It would be nice if Racket were packaged for Debian.  Even the Sid 
version of PLT Scheme (4.2.4) feels out of date.  

To my untutored eye, it looks like the organization of the source tree 
has remained pretty consistent in the transition from PLT Scheme to 
Racket, so I'm hoping that updating the package will require a 
relatively small effort.

A new Racket package would probably need to Replace/Conflict the current 
plt-scheme package, as there would be name collisions (e.g., 
/usr/bin/drscheme) otherwise.  

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages plt-scheme depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.7-18lenny4      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-7           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2+lenny2    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-1.1       GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.0.3-7           A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpixman-1-0          0.10.0-2          pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-2+lenny4   PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-1.1         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                2:1.0.4-2         X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxcb-render-util0    0.2.1+git1-1      utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb-render0         1.1-1.2           X C Binding, render extension
ii  libxcb1                1.1-1.2           X C Binding
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-2         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                2.1.12-3          FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.5-3         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages plt-scheme recommends:
ii  plt-scheme-doc                4.0.1-2    PLT Scheme Documentation

plt-scheme suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at 593614@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>

To: Richard Lawrence <wyley.r@gmail.com>, 593614@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#593614: Request: upgrade PLT Scheme to Racket

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:30:36 -0400

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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:33:31AM -0700, Richard Lawrence wrote:
> PLT Scheme underwent a name change at version 5.0.  The language is now 
> called Racket (since it has diverged somewhat from Scheme); the new site 
> for the project is:
> 
> http://www.racket-lang.org
> 
> It would be nice if Racket were packaged for Debian.  Even the Sid 
> version of PLT Scheme (4.2.4) feels out of date.  

We have work underway to do that.
http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/racket.git

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>

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