[Pkg-cmake-team] Regarding cmake version

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi!

Sorry for the looong delay.

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 15:37, Pirate Praveen <praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
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> On 2020, ഫെബ്രുവരി 21 2:53:11 AM IST, Boyuan Yang <byang at debian.org> wrote:
> >Hi Stephen,
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> >在 2020-02-20四的 03:09 +0000，Stephen R Phillips写道：
> >> Current cmake in debian is 3.13.4
> >> From cmake information the following can be derived.
> >> 3.16.4 is the last set of revisions:
> >> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.16/release/3.16.html
> >> 3.15.4 is a bit more (seasoned with bug fixes from 3.13 and 3.14) and
> >> may be a good candidate for at least a backport:
> >> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.15/release/3.15.html
> >>
> >> As KitWare does NOT time stamp their revisions (slightly frustrating)
> >> it's hard to say how old what revision is, however 3.13.4 says
> >> somewhere 2015.
> >>
> >> I am aware that TRYING to install cmake from scratch on debian
> >> doesn't work (having tried and failed). So I don't have the same
> >> option as I did with KiCAD.
> >
> >The backports repository of Debian stable only accepts versions of
> >software currently in Debian Testing so we do not have a version
> >choice.
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> >I interpret your email as asking for a newer CMake to appear in the
> >stable-backports repository. I am forwarding your email to Debian's
> >current CMake maintainers since they are most likely to help with the
> >backport work.
> >
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> Since I needed newer cmake for updating nheko, I uploaded newer cmake to buster-backports.

ideally that should have been followed by other updates from testing.
That's part of committing to backports uploads.

> I have pushed my commits here, if you like to pull, feel free. I had to lower debhelper-compat to 11 for dwz compatibility.

ACK, I have just merged in into our repo. Next time please also open a
merge request.

Thanks, Lisandro.

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