[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: evening courses

[Hubert Chan]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:46:39 +0200, Eric Heintzmann said:

>     Hi everybody, These days, I made a decision: in September I will
> register myself into evening class.  It means I will be busy (and
> probably tired) every evening of the week, and will have no time to
> continue to maintain Debian packages.  I'm sorry but there is no
> solution, I have to resign from Debian maintenance (in September, not
> now).

Sorry to hear that.  I wish you luck in the course, and hope that you
can re-join the team after you are done the course. ;-)

> I hope Hubert Chan can maintain the GNUstep Core packages. I will help
> him as far as possible. It seems very motivated...

I will take a look at those packages, and try to look at fixing the FHS
issues.

If you want, you can add me to the alioth project.  My alioth user id is
uhoreg-guest.  Are you currently using CVS or Arch through alioth?  Let
me know what you currently have set up in regards to how the packaging
team works.  You can reply on-list or privately, whichever you think is
more appropriate.

> In August, I can release the latest version of GNUstep if wished.  But
> if there is an ABI change, It mean rebuild all GNUstep packages. And
> if later, it decided to make GNUstep FHS compliant, you will have to
> build all GNUstep packages again.  Maybe it's best to wait a bit ?

I think that it would make most sense to do a maintenance release to fix
all the current easily-fixable RC bugs in the old GNUstep version so
that GNUstep will be installable, and then package the new upstream
version when we make changes to make the GNUstep packages more FHS
compliant.  That way, packages only need to be rebuilt once.  I hope to
be able to start looking at FHS-related changes this week.

The bugs that I am aware of are:
- #314823 actually a bug in freetype -- see #314385 -- but looks like
  it's easily fixable on our end by a reupload of gnustep-back
- #321495 only filed with severity normal in the BTS, but should be
  grave, since it renders the package uninstallable.  Should be fixable
  by just reuploading gnustep-base

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