[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#694015: Bug#694015: geda-gaf: diff for NMU version 1:1.6.2-4.3

[Bdale Garbee]

gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> writes:

> Thanks, I've noted the version in NEW but for some reason I assumed
> it was targetting experimental.

> Having it in unstable now would be unfortunate (with or without this
> fix) since a new upstream version would most probably not migrate to
> testing, meaning we'd need an upload to testing-proposed-updates.

There's a balance here, but in my opinion it is *way* past time for 1.8
to be in unstable.

> I guess it makes sense to cancel the NMU since both Ahmed and you are
> looking after the package, and let you sort out the best way to
> proceed?

[shrug]  I have no interest at all in 1.6 at this point, so if you think
fixing this bug in wheezy is important, maybe a testing-proposed-updates
upload would still be useful?  

FWIW, let me explain why I don't care about 1.6 any more.

There's at least one nasty DRC bug in the version of pcb packaged
in Debian that forced me to move to a fresher upstream version for my
production use of pcb.  Once you start using fresher pcb from upstream,
you must upgrade geda-gaf because older versions don't understand the
dimensional suffixes present in the files created by newer pcb... using
an older gsch2pcb *break* the pcb design by smashing dimensions when it
doesn't understand the new suffixes.

Sadly, my latest conversation with pcb upstream suggests there's no
sense of urgency for making a new "release" of pcb.  I'm really tempted
to build a newer version of pcb for unstable despite this, since what
I'm running now seems better in every way than the 16-month-old bits
currently packaged in Debian... that way at least the bits in unstable
would be "useful again".

This obviously conflicts with the idea of keeping unstable available as a
path for easy patch migration to testing, though.  Personally, having
bits in unstable that are useful to me is much more important than
fixing wheezy right now, since I'm already resigned to the idea that
we're going to have to do builds for backports to keep geda-gaf and pcb
useful to wheezy users in the future.

Bdale
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