[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#747424: Bug#747424: new "unstable" upstream version (1.9.1)

Bdale Garbee bdale at gag.com
Thu May 8 14:32:45 UTC 2014


chrysn <chrysn at fsfe.org> writes:

> as it is labelled unstable by upstream, it might not be suitable for
> anything in debian but experimental (i'd like to see it there for users
> to test the new features

Thanks for your work on this.  I've been meaning to try 1.9, so I'll
take on the task of packaging and uploading to experimental.

> one big caveat i noticed when up- and downgrading is the guile cache:
> after a downgrade, guile cache files linger around in the user
> directory. (example error messages below). it can be worked around by
> `rm -rf ~/.cache/guile`, but even if we don't officially support
> downgrades it would be better if that cache was somehow validated.
> probably not completely our business, maybe not even new in this
> upgrade, but still an issue i noticed when updating the package. who'd
> be upstream for this, guile or geda?

I'd like to say guile, so suggest filing a bug there .. if the right
resolution is for the geda-gaf packaging to do something to flush
relevant cache entries, the guile folks will I hope will say so and help
us understand how best to do that. 

Bdale
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