[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#741890: New upstream release of arb (Was: Bug#741890: arb: FTBFS with libpng16)

[Ralf Westram]

Hello Andreas,

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:15:00PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > As these things go, there will probably be a 6.0rc2, though. So while
> > I'd love to see the exposure from getting the rc1 into unstable, I'm not
> > up to date on Debian policy.
> Policy only says *how* to package not *what* to package.  We try to get
> the code which is in our user interest and you as upstream are best
> qualified to decide what might fit your users best.

Definitely arb6-release-candidates. arb5 code is more than 5000 revisions
behind.

> > The stability of the rc1 is much higher
> > than when we did the 5.0, so I feel very much at ease with it. Since the
> > 5.5 doesn't work on OSX 10.9, Matt Cottrell will also be uploading the
> > rc into MacPorts soon (if he hasn't already).
> > 
> > You can find a source tarball here:
> > ftp://ftp.arb-silva.de/ARB/builds/tagged/arb-5.21/
> 
> Well, currently we are observing
> 
>    http://download.arb-home.de/release/
> 
> and it would help if we could stick to one single download location.

You can stick to that. I'll mirror new releases from ftp.arb-silva.de

> If we agree hereby to the exception that I might pick manually
> 
>    ftp://ftp.arb-silva.de/ARB/builds/tagged/arb-5.21-rc1/arb-5.21-rc1-source.tgz
> 
> this could be done.  However, I also do not really understand the
> version numbering.  Is this a prerelease for Arb version 5.21 or a
> release candidate for 6.0?  In the later case this would end up in the
> Debian version 6.0~rc1.  Is this correct and in your interest?

No - 5.21 is no release at all. It's only the latest test of the release
automation we use now. Please wait for arb-6.0-rc1

But the codebase is nearly the same, so if 5.21 works for you, 6.0 will
most likely do as well.

Ralf