[Bug 654591] [NEW] Please backport boinc 6.10.58+dfsg-3 and boinc-app-seti 5.13+cvs20060510-7 from Maverick to Lucid

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Please backport boinc.

Current version available via aptitude is 6.10.17+dfsg-3ubuntu1 -- which
was released before Dec 1 2009.

The newest version is 6.10.58 which was released on July 6 2010.

New features (copied from changelog):

Version 6.10.57 - 6.10.58 ¶

released: 6 July 2010

    * New: Enable the ability to automatically join teams from installer scripts (Win, Mac)
    * Fix: Elasped time tracking issue
    * Fix: Fix crash condition that would happen if drivers for ATI/Nvidia were installed incorrectly or clashed with other drivers in the system. (Win)
    * Fix: Cleanup accessibility items (Mac)
    * Fix: Display both OS version and kernel version on startup (Mac)
    * Fix: Fix bug that caused a new CPID to be generated at startup (Mac) 

Version 6.10.19 - 6.10.56 ¶

released: 24 May 2010

    * New: Added Run time preference: "While processor usage is less than xx Percent. (0 means no restriction)". 25% is default. From 6.10.36+
    * New: Updated localization files
    * New: Added accessibility support for advanced view (Mac)
    * New: Added support for parsing username and password information from environment variables
    * New: Added ability to ignore specific GPU cards through the use of ignore device through the use of a configuration file option
    * New: Added ability to suspend BOINC's use of GPUs when certain applications are run through the use of a configuration file option
    * New: Allow new screen saver options to be configured via the OS specific configuration screen
    * New: Snooze GPU option off of the system tray menu
    * New: Adjust GPU activity settings via the advanced view activity menu
    * New: Added ability for a project to be specified as a "Backup Project" by setting its resource share to 0
    * New: Suspend computation of BOINC applications if CPU usage from non-BOINC applications exceeds a volunteer defined value (Defaults to 25%)
    * New: Support detecting SSE2, SSE3, and other forms of advanced instruction sets for older Windows machines (Windows)
    * New: Support for custom installers to automatically cause new accounts to join a specific team when atteching to a project for the first time (Windows)
    * New: Support for Nvidia Fermi cards
    * New: Added support for 'Transfer at most X Megabytes every N days' preference
    * Fix: Name resolution issues (Mac)
    * Fix: Activity Menu display issues (Linux)
    * Fix: Reduce CPU load in dealing with communications between manager and core client (Windows)
    * Fix: Properly display project descriptions on Windows XP machines in the attach to project wizard
    * Fix: Numerous CPU/GPU scheduling fixes
    * Fix: Numerous work-fetch fixes
    * Fix: Mac Installer for non-admin installs
    * Fix: Recover from crashes in Nvidia and ATI GPU functions (Linux, Mac)
    * Fix: Reap child processes spawned from a wrapper on Posix systems (Linux, Mac)
    * Fix: If a project supports ATI or Nvidia projects, display their icons in the project list
    * Fix: Show most commonly used preferences in use during startup via messages. 

Version 6.10.18 ¶

released: 6 Nov 2009

    * Updated localization files
    * Updated to OpenSSL 0.9.8l (Fixes a new man in the middle potential exploit due to encryption renegotiation)

** Affects: lucid-backports
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: In Progress

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Please backport boinc 6.10.58+dfsg-3 and boinc-app-seti 5.13+cvs20060510-7 from Maverick to Lucid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/654591
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