Re: gEDA-user: gschem 1.4.3 and LINGUAS="de en"

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Dienstag, den 10.03.2009, 20:25 +0000 schrieb Peter Clifton:

> 
> That doesn't make it critical. If you thought it _was_ critical, then
> you could have responded when we were calling out for any patches which
> should have got included in the 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3 etc..
> 
> The 1.4.x stable series has been maintained very conservatively so that
> only serious issues / crash bugs have been back-ported (along with a
> couple of graphical fixes which stop the suite looking crappy).
> 
> Changing build systems / installed file-names could have had potential
> side-effects. This fix does help people who use generic language
> strings, and is generally correct, but unless we have keen people
> testing these things, we can't know for sure there aren't any cases
> which regress (even if they aren't really our fault).
> 
> Producing a stable series which has no regressions or serious crashing
> bugs was our key objective here, not back-porting every fix from the
> master branch.
> 
> Things have now moved on, and we're leading towards a 1.5.2 release (to
> be followed by 1.5.3, then hopefully 1.6.0). There are no further plans
> to maintain the 1.4 branch once 1.6.0 is out, and the developers don't
> expect to release anything else in the 1.4.x series.
> 
> Because of that, if you find packaging bugs, we only care about them if
> they are reproducible in git HEAD. (Testing from the 1.5.1 release would
> be a good start). If there are any problems you find there, filing bugs
> on sourceforge.net (or better yet... patches), would be appreciated.
> 
> Best regards,
> 

I have seen the statement of Ales Hvezda multiple times not to include
the 1.5.x release in distributions.

But when reading your text above I really wonder if this is is a good
decision. Debian has stable, testing and unstable branches. Gentoo has
stable and testing/unstable branch. My impression is, that most people
on this list uses 1.5.x, it seems to work not too bad, and final 1.6 may
be far away in time. So people have to make a decision: Use 1.4.3
shipped with their distribution, or compile 1.5.x from sources.

May it be reasonable to allow distributions to include 1.5.x into their
testing/unstable branch?

Best regards

Stefan Salewski





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