Package: global Version: 5.7.1-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hello
GNU GLOBAL 6.5.2 was release in December 2015. The version packaged in Debian is 5.7.1 which is now more than 8 years old. Is it possible to upgrade the version in Debian to the latest stable release? I'm aware of the disagreement between Ron and Shigio, but it's so frustrating that no resolution has been found for so many years. There were talks about possible designs proposed by Ron and / or Shigio but it is just impossible for us users to do archaeology dating back to 1999 with no useful references whatsoever. In 6.5.2, the --system-cgi option is gone, but the htags cgi script is nonetheless dynamically generated, which is still a deal breaker for Ron as far as I can tell. On the other hand, other popular distributions like Gentoo, Fedora and Arch don't seem to have the same concern, so I find it hard to buy that argument to block moving to a new version. Ron, please reconsider the benefit of upgrading it to the newer version vs the downside. Thanks Wei. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
