Bug#737347: xboard: wish for pre-4.8 snapshot for experimental to get new features more exposure

[Yann Dirson]

Package: xboard
Version: 4.7.3-1
Severity: wishlist

4.8 features many new features, including support for new large shogi
variants, and overall better support for non-chess ("xboard @shogi"
and friends), including the ability for a compatible engine to declare
itself to xboard.

I have packaged hachu some time ago, as the only available DFSG
program able to play those large variants (I've kept it in
experimental till now, since there is no GUI yet in unstable to play
them).  Having a compatible xboard there would allow to start working
on hachu/xboard integration, and to give more precise feedback to
upstream to make sure that those new features are packaging-friendly.

A master-20140119 snapshot was tagged recently, it looks like a good
version to package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xboard depends on:
ii  libc6               2.17-97
ii  libcairo2           1.12.16-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.28.2-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.36.4-1
ii  libice6             2:1.0.8-2
ii  librsvg2-2          2.40.0-1
ii  libsm6              2:1.2.1-2
ii  libx11-6            2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxaw7             2:1.0.12-1
ii  libxmu6             2:1.1.1-1
ii  libxpm4             1:3.5.10-1
ii  libxt6              1:1.1.4-1

Versions of packages xboard recommends:
ii  fairymax       4.8q-2
ii  xfonts-100dpi  1:1.0.3
ii  xfonts-75dpi   1:1.0.3

Versions of packages xboard suggests:
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]  300-1

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