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

[Csanyi Pal]

Yavor Doganov wrote:
> 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?

Yes, this sound good for me! :)

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