[for some previous context please see the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/12/msg00520.html]
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 14:19:27 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: > 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. As a somewhat interested person, could I please enquire about the sources of these accounts? As far as we (wxWidgets developers) are concerned, wx2.8 is miles ahead of 2.6 and, while any non-trivial software package has bugs and wx2.8 is no exception, is certainly not more buggy than 2.6. Moreover the only claims to the contrary which I've ever seen came (indirectly) from Ron Lee and we believe that he is purposefully sabotaging the inclusion of wx in Debian as a kind of revenge for being excluded from wxWidgets development team. So, once again, if there are any real reasons preventing wx2.8 from being included in Debian I'd really appreciate if somebody could finally point them out to us -- and I can promise that we'll do our best to fix them. And, seeing from your signature that you're both a Debian and Ubuntu developer, I'd like to notice that Ubuntu doesn't seem to find anything catastrophic with shipping wx2.8 which it does since quite some time. Of course, maybe Ubuntu is wrong and Debian maintainer is correct and there are horrible bugs in wx2.8 -- except we've never heard about them, as much as we'd like to. So if you have any information about the details of the accounts you mentioned, could you please post it here, to wx-dev@ lists.wxwidgets.org or me privately, as you prefer? But saying that "by all accounts wx2.8 is unsuitable" without any supporting arguments is just not very helpful. Thanks in advance, VZ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]