Dear Fink folks,
As many of you know, the "stable" tree in 10.3 was created from the corresponding tree in 10.2. Everything which was moved to 10.3 builds OK on 10.3, but there are a number of cases where the software provided by the package no longer works, or doesn't work as expected.
We need to improve this situation by analyzing the packages in 10.3/stable for stability in this sense. Once we know that the packages there are stable, we'll be able to make our first binary release for 10.3 (which should have the same quality as previous binary releases). In fact, once we get to that point, I'll plan on a simultaneous release of Fink 0.6.2 for 10.2 and Fink 0.7.0 for 10.3.
You can help! I've set up some wiki pages at http://ranger.befunk.com/phpwiki/index.php/Fink where we can keep track of the progress of this project. If you can test a package from 10.3/stable and verify its stability, please edit the corresponding page of the wiki and "sign" as the person who has validated the package. If you find a problem, please report it to the package maintainer and on this list. We'll plan to remove the problem packages which don't get fixed prior to the binary distribution.
Thanks, Dave
How stable is stable? For example, bluefish-0.10-11 crashes with a bus error when trying to spell check. But it works wonderfully in every other respect. Spell checking is only a very small part of its functionality. I reported the spell check problems to the bluefish developers and it was fixed in a later release.
Should I report bluefish 0.10-11 as stable or not? My inclination is to move it into the binary distribution. Or, should I report on bluefish-0.12-12, the current version in unstable, as the spell check crash is fixed in it, and it works well in every other respect?
Kevin Horton
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