gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> writes: > Thanks, I've noted the version in NEW but for some reason I assumed > it was targetting experimental.
> Having it in unstable now would be unfortunate (with or without this > fix) since a new upstream version would most probably not migrate to > testing, meaning we'd need an upload to testing-proposed-updates. There's a balance here, but in my opinion it is *way* past time for 1.8 to be in unstable. > I guess it makes sense to cancel the NMU since both Ahmed and you are > looking after the package, and let you sort out the best way to > proceed? [shrug] I have no interest at all in 1.6 at this point, so if you think fixing this bug in wheezy is important, maybe a testing-proposed-updates upload would still be useful? FWIW, let me explain why I don't care about 1.6 any more. There's at least one nasty DRC bug in the version of pcb packaged in Debian that forced me to move to a fresher upstream version for my production use of pcb. Once you start using fresher pcb from upstream, you must upgrade geda-gaf because older versions don't understand the dimensional suffixes present in the files created by newer pcb... using an older gsch2pcb *break* the pcb design by smashing dimensions when it doesn't understand the new suffixes. Sadly, my latest conversation with pcb upstream suggests there's no sense of urgency for making a new "release" of pcb. I'm really tempted to build a newer version of pcb for unstable despite this, since what I'm running now seems better in every way than the 16-month-old bits currently packaged in Debian... that way at least the bits in unstable would be "useful again". This obviously conflicts with the idea of keeping unstable available as a path for easy patch migration to testing, though. Personally, having bits in unstable that are useful to me is much more important than fixing wheezy right now, since I'm already resigned to the idea that we're going to have to do builds for backports to keep geda-gaf and pcb useful to wheezy users in the future. Bdale
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