Package: codeblocks Version: 16.01+dfsg-2.1 Followup-For: Bug #732791
I do not feel it is acceptable to provide so old version of this software in Debian probably. There are in fact some external libraries that makes codeblocks 16.01 not usable in debian anymore, i.e. newer versions of boost libraries, various newer C++ features not supported in editor well, etc. There is a third party repo, for codeblock with deb package for version 17.12 https://apt.jenslody.de/ and source packages are available too, so if there is something broken in current version of package scripts, they can be easily taken from Jens' scripts. codeblocks is not dead upstream, despite infrequent releases. There are simply not many new features, but it fully functional and will see developement in the future. In just last 7 days, I have seen about 20 SVN commits in this project, and since start of the year 2019, there was about 110 commits by 4 developers, both new features and bug fixes, which is healthy amount. It would be even interesting to have SVN repo be automatically build every week and pushed to experimental. I wish to have CodeBlocks working, as it is nice editor, and it is especially useful for me when developing and debugging apps written in D programming language, with GDC or LDC compilers (available in Debian). Especially with Eclipse, and Eclipse CDT and Eclipse DDT, also not available in Debian (and DDT being not supported upstream anymore), there is not many good options for D or C++ programming in Debian using IDEs. Thanks, Witold
