wesnoth packaging

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> [2012-01-31 03:18:48 CET]:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 01:21:15PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > * 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.
> 
> OK, but ... 1.9 is currently in testing.  Won't it get released?

 No, it won't.  The plan is to get it removed once 1.10 did stick in
testing for a bit to get more exposure, togehter with ...

> OK.  So, FYI I do plan to flip boost-defaults in the next week, which
> will make wesnoth-1.8 FTBFS if nothing is done.  Do you want me
> to look into a patch and NMU?

 ... together with wesnoth-1.8 removal. :)  The patch is clear, it
should even be linked from the bugreport into the upstream bug tracker
IIRC (can't look right now, but upstream will find it for me if needed),
though:  when I uploaded 1.10 to unstable, I did merge the packaging
into the master branch and thus abandoning the 1.8 version from a VCS
point of view.

 Granted, I could branch the last upload off easily, but I really don't
see the need to put efforts into this.  Please go ahead from my limited
wesnoth point of view with flipping boost-defaults, it won't disturb my
packaging work at all, everything is on tracks. :)

 Enjoy,
Rhonda
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