Anyone from the release team want to comment on whether we will be allowed to move forward with this transition?
(P.S.: please Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in replies.) On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:24:27 -0400, Hubert Chathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello, release team, Due to licensing issues, we have been unable to > legally update the core GNUstep libraries (gnustep-base, gnustep-gui, > gnustep-back) to the latest upstream versions while keeping all our > applications. This issue has recently been resolved, and so the > GNUstep team would like to update the GNUstep libraries in Debian to > either the latest upstream "unstable" release, or the upcoming > upstream "stable" release (which should be released hopefully this > Saturday or so). However, this will involve a soname bump for the > libraries, so this is a library transition. > This transition should be much less painful than the last GNUstep > transition that we had; the last GNUstep transition involved extensive > changes to the build system, which required a lot of editing of source > files. This transition should be able to be handled by just > recompiling most of the packages (a few packages may need a bit of > editing, but those should be the minority), and so should be mostly > handled by binNMUs, except in the case where we also want to update to > new versions of certain applications. > Please let us know if we can go ahead with planning a transition, or > what steps we should be taking. We already have a fairly recent > version of gnustep-base, gnustep-gui, and gnustep-back in experimental > for maintainers to try compiling their packages against. We are planning on manually updating the following packages - agenda.app (new upstream) - gorm.app (new upstream, currently in experimental) - price.app (new upstream, currently in experimental) - projectcenter.app (new upstream) - zipper.app (new upstream, currently in experimental) - terminal.app (requires a small source change to compile against latest GNUstep, currently in experimental) - gnustep-dl2 (maybe. upstream plans on doing a new release RSN) The following packages can be binNMUed: aclock.app addresses-for-gnustep adun.app affiche batmon.app biococoa.app camera.app cenon.app charmap.app cynthiune.app displaycalibrator.app easydiff.app edenmath.app etoile ftp.app gnumail (depends on pantomime1.2, addresses-for-gnustep) gnustep-examples gnustep-netclasses gnuwash.app gomoku.app gridlock.app gtamsanalyzer.app gworkspace (depends on popplerkit.framework) helpviewer.app innerspace.app latex.service lusernet.app (depends on pantomime1.2) lynkeos.app mines.app mknfonts.tool mpdcon.app oolite open.app paje.app pantomime1.2 plopfolio.app poe.app popplerkit.framework preferences.app preview.app projectmanager.app remotedesk renaissance rssreader.app shisen.app stepbill.app steptalk stepulator.app talksoup.app (depends on gnustep-netclasses) textedit.app timemon.app viewpdf.app (depends on popplerkit.framework) volumecontrol.app wrapperfactory.app -- Hubert Chathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
