Package: gforth Version: 0.7.3+dfsg-9 Severity: wishlist Hi.
Package gforth contains version 0.7.3. This is the last official version released by upstream developers. This version is many years old and development of the software continued even if they did not make any official release. Gforth 0.7.3 lacks many features provided by today's gforth. However, the gforth developers regularly release development snapshots. Last one is gforth 0.7.9_20190822. These snapshots are much more up to date and the packaged gforth version is now mainly useful for bootstrapping a snapshot, and then use the snapshot. I think there may be a few ways a newer version of gforth can be made available in Debian: a) Make the gforth package follow the snapshots instead of the official releases; b) Create a second package named something like gforth-snapshot or similar; c) Option b but put gforth-snapshot in experimental instead; d) Something else. Are any of these solutions workable? Please forgive me if I didn't use the proper channel to express these concerns. sf. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers disco-updates APT policy: (500, 'disco-updates'), (500, 'disco-security'), (500, 'disco'), (100, 'disco-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.0.0-25-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_CA:fr (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages gforth depends on: ii emacsen-common 3.0.4 ii gforth-common 0.7.3+dfsg-9 ii gforth-lib 0.7.3+dfsg-9 ii libc6 2.29-0ubuntu2 ii libltdl7 2.4.6-10 gforth recommends no packages. gforth suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
