Steve Langasek <vorlon <at> debian.org> writes: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:06:22PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Well, if we advise users to compile their stuff on their own > > something is broken. If we can not provide the latest upstream > > version of a certain end user application because we are missing > > some underlying libraries (for whatever reason) we IMHO failed > > in supporting our users.
Fully agreed. > Currently, the packages that are asking for wx2.8 are almost all available > and releasable in earlier versions, built against wx2.6. Uploading wx2.8 to > unstable implies that it's suitable for apps to build against, which by all > accounts it is not. Wearing a Debian 'user' as well as 'developer' hat, I was stopped in the tracks a few days ago when I tried to look at some C/c++ IDE (code::blocks) which would not configure on my testing box due to a lack of wxWidgets 2.8. Not nice at all. I can typically rely on Debian for having recent and common software. In this case, Ubuntu won. Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
