[Debian GNUstep maintainers] New GNUstep releases

[Gürkan Sengün]

Hello Yavor

> So... what shall we do for squeeze?  The current situation is really
> frustrating :-(.
>
> I think we should definitely try to release with the newest, not only
> because they are labeled as "stable" -- there are lots of good API
> additions and bugfixes that application developers are going to rely
> upon.  What we have now (heck, we don't even *have* it, given that
> gui/back is only in experimental) is already obsolete.

I agree, we should go for the latest stable release, and your plan
to test it before distributing it is good. I can help until end of May,
then I'm kind of away for two months.

> But we have to be careful not to make the situation worse, so I
> suggest the following:
>
> Make 2.4.0: Upload to sid right away, no transition involved.
>
> Base 1.20.0: Upload to experimental (for now).  This would allow us to
> test all packages and judge whether to go on with a 1.19->1.20
> transition.  If we decide not to do so (for whatever reason), this
> will not prevent an upload of gui/back to sid (base will remain in
> experimental for a post-squeeze transition).
>
> GUI/Back 0.18.0: I'll prepare the packages once the new releases are
> out, and after we upload -base/1.20.0, but will not upload at all.
> Instead, I'll put them in a public location so that we can all test
> the whole GNUstep stack.  If we can manage to deal with all breakages,
> we can then upload gui+back to experimental and update the release.d.o
> bug with the new information (i.e. the preparation for base 1.19->1.20
> and gui 0.16->0.18 transitions).
>
> What do you think about the plan?  Does it sound good?

Sounds good, I don't know if it's good to waste debian developer sponsor
time for experimental uploads though. I'm very much behind with getting
my packages updated because of lack of sponsor time.

Yours,
Gurkan