On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 07:38:44PM +0200, intrig...@debian.org wrote:
> Source: dasher
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi!
>
> I've been looking at the state of dasher in Debian, since we are
> shipping it in Tails 2.x (Jessie), but it's been removed from testing
> so there are chances that it does not make it into Tails 3.x
> (Stretch).
>
> I could find no Free Software alternative to dasher.
>
> Thankfully, upstream announced 5.0 beta a few months ago:
> http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/WhatsNew.html
>
> This is great news: it means that the software is not abandoned
> upstream, contrary to what I was starting to believe :)
>
> Perhaps it would fix the RC bug that got the package removed
> from testing?
I just attached the trivial upstream fix for the FTBFS to the RC bug.
This should be sufficient for getting dasher back into testing,
I have no opinions whether 5.0-beta is better or worse than the
current git snapshot.
> Cheers,
cu
Adrian
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