Hi, Rogério. I am agree with you that it would be nice to have a development version of Clementine in experimental. And sure I can easily fetch the last commit from the upstream git repository.
But there is some points that add some difficulties to this task : * As you say, Clementine is in heavy development. And developers constantly use new third party libraries. Sometimes, these libraries are not packaged yet in Debian. Or sometimes developers use patched version of a library and even if this library is already packaged in Debian it need to be patched to work with Clementine package. * Clementine use some non-dfsg elements that implies that I can't use directly the upstream sources. So, each time I update my upstream branch (from a tarball or from the upstream repo), I must reform it into a 'dfsg_clean' branch before build the final clementine package. So, the situation is not as simple as you think. For the moment, priorities are : 1. Have a solid and clean situation for the current Clementine package and its dependencies. For example, there are some new packages like 'libqxt' (one of clementine depend) that just entered the archive and need to be maintained and improved. It also remains some embedded copy of codes in the package and maybe these will need to be packaged too. 2. Provide a backport version of clementine for stable. This implies to backport the new depends too. 3. Provide a development version in experimental. In summary : Yes, this is planned but this is not the priority at this time. Regards, Thomas Pierson.
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