[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#539393: Bug#539393: The gnustep packages are not new enough in the Debian stable release.

[Yavor Doganov]

Gürkan Sengün wrote:
> > If there are 0.16.x point releases, we'll upload them.  0.17.x are 
> > unstable and won't be packaged.
> 
> I really wish we could go with the latest tarballs of GNUstep,

You mean that we should not wait for "stable" even-numbered releases
and incrementally upload every release?  This didn't make much sense
in the past, when upstream were releasing identical (say) 0.12.0 and
0.13.0, with the former getting regular bugfix micro releases.

But now that they're changing the release policy slightly, maybe we
can do that.  And there's not much difference in stability between an
even and odd-numbered release, IMHO.  Perhaps it is a good idea to
discuss this on gnustep-dev.

I agree with you that having the newest is the best for the majority
of the users.

> would it be possible to have them at least in experimental?

This is not going to help users much, as due to the soname bumps every
dependent package has to be rebuilt...

> I'm also interested having the latest tarballs of GNUstep packaged
> in Debian, since I need them for the http://livecd.gnustep.org/

Ack.  So I suggest that we upload gnustep-make and gnustep-base
(1.19.1) in sid, gnustep-gui 0.17.1 in experimental, then ask
debian-release for another transition, and upload it to sid once we
have green light from them.  Does this sound good?