Bug#966099: gnucobol: install gnucobol 3.1-rc1 by default instead of unstable version

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Al Stone]
> This version of the compiler unfortunately requires a recompile of all
> COBOL modules in order to be used.  Further, this is still considered
> pretty unstable and upstream does not recommend it for daily use.

Given that the 3.1-rc1 version han many security problems, as reported
by the security tracker in Debian, I fail to see how asking people to
use 3.1-rc1 instead of the version where these issues are fixed is a
good idea.

When that is said, I would very much like to have a stable release of
gnucobol in Debian.  Perhaps poke upstream to get a new release out?


-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

Bug#966099: gnucobol: install gnucobol 3.1-rc1 by default instead of unstable version

[Al Stone]

Package: gnucobol
Version: 4.0~early~20200606-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

This version of the compiler unfortunately requires a recompile of all
COBOL modules in order to be used.  Further, this is still considered
pretty unstable and upstream does not recommend it for daily use.

Please revert the default version of the compiler to 3.1-rc1, the current
stable version.  Any of the 4.0+ versions should be in a separate package
so as not to disturb stable development environments.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), 
(500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnucobol depends on:
ii  gcc   4:9.2.1-3.1
ii  libc6 2.30-8
ii  libcob5   4.0~early~20200606-3
ii  libcob5-dev   4.0~early~20200606-3
ii  libgmp-dev2:6.2.0+dfsg-6
ii  libncurses-dev [libncurses5-dev]  6.2-1
ii  libncurses5-dev   6.2-1

gnucobol recommends no packages.

gnucobol suggests no packages.

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