Bug#835533: dasher: Please package Dasher 5.0 beta

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 07:38:44PM +0200, intrigeri at debian.org wrote:
> Source: dasher
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I've been looking at the state of dasher in Debian, since we are
> shipping it in Tails 2.x (Jessie), but it's been removed from testing
> so there are chances that it does not make it into Tails 3.x
> (Stretch).
> 
> I could find no Free Software alternative to dasher.
> 
> Thankfully, upstream announced 5.0 beta a few months ago:
> http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/WhatsNew.html
> 
> This is great news: it means that the software is not abandoned
> upstream, contrary to what I was starting to believe :)
> 
> Perhaps it would fix the RC bug that got the package removed
> from testing?

I just attached the trivial upstream fix for the FTBFS to the RC bug.

This should be sufficient for getting dasher back into testing,
I have no opinions whether 5.0-beta is better or worse than the
current git snapshot.

> Cheers,

cu
Adrian

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