wesnoth packaging

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> [2012-01-30 00:50:57 CET]:
> I'd just like to understand the packaging practices.  Why are there
> parallel source packages of wesnoth (1.8, 1.9, 1.10)?  Is wesnoth-1.8
> destined to be removed from the archive, fixed, or simply quietly
> abandoned?

 Wesnoth upstream follows the old kernel versioning schema: even minor
numbers are stable releases, odd minor numbers are development versions.
So 1.9 is of no relevance here.

 1.10 will replace 1.8, but it was needed to do that as seperate source
packages to be able to install them side-by-side to make it possible for
people wanting the stable releases to play with others and at the same
time have the development version for testing the newest features and
giving feedback.

 So indeed, 1.8 will get removed from testing and unstable, and 1.10
will get released with wheezy.  I am uncertain currently whether I want
to fix the issue that wesnoth-1.8 has with boost 1.48, potentially for
the benefit of derivative distributions, but time is currently limiting
me badly, so don't bet on it.  It doesn't affect squeeze so motivation
to put a fair amount of effort to do it isn't very high.

 Thanks for your concerns, and especially thanks for keeping track of
this, we need more people tracking their bugreports properly! :)

 Enjoy!
Rhonda
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