Re: gEDA-user: geda in Lenny (was Re: Creating system-gafrc again)

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 19:27 -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:

> Speaking of Debian/Lenny/gEDA, can someone turn up the heat
> on getting a license-fixed (at least) geda into Debian?
> The time is fast approaching when packages with RC bugs
> will get kicked out.

People are on the case.. don't worry. (CC'd now to this reply as well).

> My guess is that it's already too late
> to get a significant update into Lenny, and y'all should
> content yourselves with the license fixes.

There were some patches ready to push the license fix, but Richard, who
did those is holding off as I mentioned that Hamish promised 1.4.3
packages whilst he was at LCA. In any case.. we might be forced just to
have the licence fix, rather than a new upstream version + license fix.

> , and maybe throw in a fix for #507363 for good measure.

That's not critical, and isn't something I expect they would want to
change during the freeze. At least 1.4.0 -> 1.4.3 is just carefully
back-ported (and well tested) code changes fixing crash bugs.

Don't underestimate the likelihood of a "simple" packaging fix causing
major breakage. Its always the last minute one-liner which breaks a
release ;)

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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