tags -1 wontfix
thanks
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 05:24:50PM +0100, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> It would be helpful to have a package for the 3.1.* release (currently
> 3.1.2) of wxWidgets for development purposes, even if that just targets
> experimental.
It's not ABI stable, so it's just not suitable for packaging. Every new
3.1.x release would mean a transition for everything built against it.
Even if we only uploaded to experimental with the aim to support local
builds, a new upload would break everyone's locally built applications.
People who want to use 3.1.x are better off doing a local install from
upstream sources as then they have control of when they upgrade to a
new 3.1.x.
Once 3.1.x turns into 3.2.0, upstream promises ABI stability and then
we can usefully package it.
> Although still considered "development" and not 100% compatible with
> 3.0, wx 3.1 includes a plethora of bug fixes that forced me to upgrade
> for development.
Please encourage upstream to backport fixes for such bugs to 3.0.x. In
most cases can pick up backported fixes and add them to the Debian
packaging fairly easily (no need to wait for upstream to make the next
3.0.x release).
Cheers,
Olly
