On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 04:37:50PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks for explaining why filezilla is not yet updated. If you have the > > time, you might want to offer help to the maintainer of wxwidgets2.6: > > Likewise, bitpim has moved to 2.8 upstream, forcing me to hold back or > backport various GUI-related changes on their part, so I'd also > greatly appreciate seeing wxWidgets 2.8 in Debian.
We can't by any sensible measure just keep accruing wx releases in the distro. There are apps still happily using 2.4 because an 'upgrade' to 2.6 will break them, though the demise of gtk1 is going to put an end to that period of bliss eventually whether they are working or not... wx2.6 was rushed out prematurely, because book deadlines apparently trump good release management, 2.8 followed fairly shortly after for reasons which should be obvious, but not quickly enough to introduce another transition into the etch cycle. Its the release we probably should have had in etch, but only very few people I know of had tested it with apps that were candidates for the distro, and though there were some apps that already would no longer work with 2.6 in their latest form, the needs of the many ultimately had to win the hand for etch. I don't know of any app that missed inclusion totally from etch for this reason. So the million dollar question now, is which version do we want to ship with Lenny. 2.8 will almost certainly be obsolete by then, and it looks like 2.9 is going to totally break everybody's string handling yet again. How big a nightmare that proves to be is probably also going to depend on how many shortcuts it takes to make an intractable solution meet another contractual deadline... I'm fairly sure there will be a late night comedy sketch or two before that all blows over, and which way we go will depend a lot on what the major app authors decide is best for them. I don't really feel comfortable just inflicting an arbitrary new version or two on them, but we do need some idea of who is committed to using 2.8 through to the release of Lenny, and who has already moved on from that and thinks we should also. There are too many of these people now for me to keep track of them all individually, so to some extent you are all going to need to work that bit out amongst yourselves and let me know what you came up with. If we need a list to do that on, that shouldn't be too hard to arrange, but what it really needs is people committed to coordinating the next release to meet their needs and those of as many other developers as possible. > However, I am concerned that its maintainer (Ron Lee) may have gone > altogether MIA, as I see no indication of Debian-related activity on > his part since the end of February; has anyone seen any sign of him > since? Are you sure that wasn't missing inaction... ? I can, in sound mind and body, assure you that your concern is greatly out of proportion with anything resembling a fact. I fear someone may have sold you a canary that had to be nailed to its perch. ;) My last mail to an @l.d.o would have been within the last week, and my last reply to the bts about a week before that. Not so many indicators as an old 18wheeler, but enough to make me street legal I should think. Anyhow, most people who want to find some sign of me and don't hang out under the same rocks I do, usually find it sufficient to send me an email saying something like, "er, Ron, we've got this problem...". Adding useful information to a bts entry can work pretty well too... Where did you get the Feb idea from? busy, busy, busy, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
