Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

[Marko Lindqvist]

On 26 January 2014 17:35, Jacob Nevins
<jacobn+debian at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Markus Koschany writes:
>> the current human maintainers of freeciv are quite inactive/busy these
>> days. You could always try to update the package yourself and ask
>> someone on debian-devel-games at lists.debian.org for sponsoring your
>> package. This might often be the quickest way to get an urgent fix into
>> Debian/Ubuntu.
>
> You're probably right that it's the quickest way, but so far I've been
> successfully resisting the temptation to get involved in Debian
> packaging -- I already have too many commitments as upstream...

 So are we all, though the fact that most freeciv devs seem to be
Debian or derivative users should make packaging to Debian a bit
easier - most incompatibility problems and the like get caught in
upstream already. I'm using Debian testing as primary Freeciv
development OS.

>> As soon as Alioth and the git repositories are back online, I can try to
>> package 2.4.1. I hope there aren't too many changes.
>
> Since 2.4.0 is already packaged, I *think* 2.4.1 should be a
> straightforward rebuild.

 I think so too, as long as one has only updating to the new upstream
version as goal for new Debian package version - as jtn said that
alone would be big improvement, fix many bugs.

> I don't see anything scary-looking at
> <http://www.freeciv.org/wiki/NEWS-2.4.1#Build.2Fportability>
> nor any significant additions to doc/README.packaging.
>
>> I can't promise that the new release will be uploaded in time before
>> the 6th of February. That depends on whether I can find a sponsor for
>> freeciv.
>
> Thanks for considering it.

 After Ubunut LTS next important distributions related date for me is
freeze of Debian itself November. How much earlier we should have
upstream release (bugfix one) out for it to get included with high
probability?


 - ML