On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 05:38:26PM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > Package: cegui-mk2 > Version: 0.6.2-5.1 > Severity: serious > > > Hello, > > Please upload CEGUI 0.7 to unstable... it's two years old [1], and the > last point release 0.7.5 is almost 1 year old. And we're talking > about Debian unstable... Do you want to ship the obsolete, buggy and > unmaintained 0.6 release with the next stable or what? The packages > depending on it need to stabilise before the freeze... >
There are some packages which depends on CEGUI that will fail to build because of the change of the API. There are not that many, but still. Of course I don't want to ship obsolete things, but I don't want to break too many things. > [1] > http://www.cegui.org.uk/wiki/index.php/News#CEGUI_0.7.0_is_Released.21_by_CrazyEddie_20th_September_2009 > > Also, I've been waiting more than a year [2] to package a game because > it needs CEGUI 0.7. I already submitted bug reports [3] to some > packages depending on CEGUI because they are hopelessly obsolete and > nobody in their sane minds should want to use the versions shipped by > Debian, but actually they don't seem to depend on a specific version, > so upgrading CEGUI shoudln't hurt. > > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597868 > [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633854 > As I wrote above, it will cause some problems. In any case, I understand your position in this. So I'll upload it just right now to unstable, and then I'll see how I can fix all problems that could raise. > So could you have CEGUI 0.7 in unstable now, please? > Yes, I could. > Thanks. > You are welcome. -- Muammar El Khatib. Linux user: 403107. Key fingerprint = 90B8 BFC4 4A75 B881 39A3 1440 30EB 403B 1270 29F1 http://muammar.me | http://proyectociencia.org ,''`. : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
