Hi,
Le 19/08/2025 à 19:02, Adam D. Barratt a écrit :
On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 13:45 +0200, Tarik Graba wrote:
kicad/9.0.3+dfsg-1 did not make it into trixie, but I see that it has
been accepted into bookworm-backports and testing.
Do you know if/when it will migrate to trixe?
Packages don't migrate from testing to stable. If there are particular
fixes that warrant it then those can be requested by following the
process for updates in stable, but a new upstream version of the
apparent size of 9.0.3 (relative to 9.0.2) is unlikely to be suitable
without more detail.
I think the reasons to update the package have been described in
Cartsten's original unblock request.
I can add that kicad is often used in collaborative mixed OS environment
and it is important to have similar versions to guarantee
interoperability. Debian packaging is quite good and reactive (thanks
Carsten and the Debian electronic team) and follows very closely
upstream releases (mainly through backports).
Unless there was a specific agreement with the backports team, that
version should also not have been uploaded to bookworm-backports. The
supported backports paths are testing -> stable-backports, and stable -
oldstable-backports. A backport from testing to oldstable belongs in
bookworm-backports-sloppy at this point.
Actually, stable backports are not yet open, and, kicad 9.0.3 has been
uploaded to oldstable-backports which I am using actually. But, this
makes upgrading from oldstable+backports to stable more "complicated".
Thus, I was hopping, kicad 9.0.3 will be proposed for stable updates
before the next point release in September. If it does not happen, it is
ok, we will deal with it.
Regards,
Adam
Regards and thank you all for your implication in maintaining Debian,
Tarik
