All the workarounds for crashes due to gtk3 bugs would have been relevant, though => will make a new release as soon as I can.
Kind regards, Gunter. On 26 September 2019 23:41:22 CEST, Olly Betts <o...@survex.com> wrote: >On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 10:15:35AM +0200, Gunter Königsmann wrote: >> Thanks for the offer of doing an NMU. > >Thanks, done. > >> Currently the wxMaxima manual is in transition from a HTML file made >> with a proprietary tool to a .md file that can be edited by the >> maintainers and (using pandoc and po4a) can be converted into >localized >> HTML. > >That sounds great in the wider context, but any changes to how you >maintain your docs are not even slightly relevant to this transition. > >> As soon as that is done a new wxMaxima release will take place that I >> will upload to unstable: I was trying to avoid uploading a >> nearly-obsolete version of the program. > >There's no need for a new upstream release to make a Debian upload. >That's a common trap to fall in to when Debian maintainer is upstream >(I know I fell into it myself when I was new to Debian) but it's not a >helpful approach to take - it results in delaying making fixes to >Debian, and pointless release churn upstream. > >The question should really be whether an upload would be an improvement >over what's currently in Debian, not whether it's better than some >not-yet-existing upcoming release. In your mind the version we'd >upload >is "nearly-obsolete", but then the version currently in unstable it >would replace is at least as much so. > >By uploading the change now we get wider testing of it, especially if >your new upstream release takes longer to make. This way you don't >need to feel under time pressure to make the upstream release to >address >this bug, but if your new release is ready you can just upload and >we've >only lost the small amount of time it took for me to rebuild the >package. > >Cheers, > Olly -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet.
