[Pkg-electronics-devel] RFS: UPDATE: geda-gaf 1.8.0-1

[أحمد المحمودي]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 02:03:00PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy at sabily.org> writes:
> 
> >> the version of pcb in Debian is horribly out of date!
> >
> > uscan says that pcb on Debian is up to date (20110918). Is there a new 
> > upstream URL ?
> 
> The problem is that upstream hasn't bothered to do a "release" in ages,
> but there are "critical for my use" fixes in upstream git.  I'm
> currently running build from head of upstream master as of 20120822, and
> about to do a fresher build to see if a segfault I'm hitting using the
> file/import functionality with a multi-page schematic has been fixed
> since then.
> 
> I'm not sure what the best strategy is here.  Randomly packaging
> upstream head and having that flow through to stable might or might not
> make sense... but it's clear to me that we want/need something fresher
> than a 2011 version of pcb in sid!
---end quoted text---

  Erm, can't we just use patches from git that fix the problems in 20110918 ?

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