[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Planning a GNUstep transition.

[Hubert Chathi]

Can someone from the release team please respond?

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:11:55 -0400, Hubert Chathi <uhoreg at debian.org> said:

> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:37:22 -0700, Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> said:
>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:09:39PM -0400, Hubert Chathi wrote:
>>> Please let us know if we can go ahead with planning a transition, or
>>> what steps we should be taking.  We already have a fairly recent
>>> version of gnustep-base, gnustep-gui, and gnustep-back in
>>> experimental for maintainers to try compiling their packages against.

>> Has comprehensive staging been done to make sure that these packages
>> do all build from source in the new version, or are you just relying
>> on maintainers to take advantage of what's in experimental?

> OK, I have rebuilt all the GNUstep related packages, and they all build
> fine (aside from the ones that I mentioned before that we will upload
> manually) except for:
> - cynthiune.app
> - projectmanager.app
>   These need minor source fixes (missing #includes).  These are
>   currently orphaned/ITAed, so I could upload fixed versions right away
>   which will build fine against the current GNUstep libraries, and then
>   they can be binNMUed when the libraries are ready, if that makes
>   things any easier.  (The same could also be done for terminal.app, to
>   have one less package that we need to update by hand.)
> - helpviewer.app
> - lusernet.app
>   Bigger problems (well, lusernet.app just has some missing #includes,
>   but I got tired of chasing them down).  But Yavor tells me that these
>   packages have significant problems currently anyways, so we probably
>   wouldn't feel too bad if they were removed from testing in their
>   current state.

> Let us know what else needs to be done, and if we can go ahead with this
> transition.  (And as usual, please Cc:
> pkg-gnustep-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org.)  The updated GNUstep
> packages have been uploaded to experimental, and have all passed through
> the NEW queue except for gnustep-gui, which was rejected due to license
> issues which have now been resolved.

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