It's a really tight tunescale. Can we get a release of gnustep-core out in
the next couple of weeks? I have been working in preparing gnustep-base for
release since mid December, so I think it's nearly ready to go. I think
gnustep-make is good to release. What do we need to get GUI/back ready?
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>
> From: Yavor Doganov <ya...@gnu.org>
> Date: 23 Jan 2025 at 07:15
> To: discuss-gnustep <discuss-gnus...@gnu.org>
> Subject: Debian 13 (trixie) freeze schedule released
>
>
> Debian has finally announced the freeze schedule for the forthcoming
> stable release [1]. The announcement has been made today (my TZ), and
> it's way too late compared to previous releases so likely to put many
> upstream developers under pressure.
>
> 2025-03-15 - Milestone 1 - Transition and toolchain freeze
> 2025-04-15 - Milestone 2 - Soft Freeze
> 2025-05-15 - Milestone 3 - Hard Freeze - for key packages and
> packages without autopkgtests
> To be announced - Milestone 4 - Full Freeze
>
> For the core packages, and for any package providing a library or
> framework with a *bumped* SONAME, the important date is the first one,
> minus one month. It means that the new releases should should be made
> by mid-February.
>
> I remind you the sad fact that the current Debian release, 12
> (bookworm), shipped with outdated GNUstep core libraries because we
> missed the deadline for library transitions by just a few days [2].
> The previous stable release, 11 (bullseye), also shipped with outdated
> GNUstep because I failed to inform the GNUstep developers in time.
>
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/01/msg00004.html
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/1028602
>
>
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