Hi

I think it would be great to have that new release for the next Debian release 
which is going to happen soon:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBuster

Happy new year!




Gürkan
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> On Jan 1, 2019, at 15:32, Stefan Bidigaray <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 1, 2019, 07:50 Fred Kiefer <[email protected] wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> > Am 01.01.2019 um 12:44 schrieb Ivan Vučica <[email protected]>:
>> > 
>> > Hi maintainers,
>> > 
>> > If you want, I can spend some time cutting a release. It has been a while 
>> > since the last one. Do we need a one? Are there critical bugs we fixed? 
>> > Are there critical bugs blocking the release?
>> 
>> There weren’t that many changes to GNustep in the last year, but cutting a 
>> new release would be nice. I have been working on a few changes to the opal 
>> backend to get PikoPixel working in that setup. Having a release deadline in 
>> about two weeks could motivate me to finish these changes :-)
>> 
>> 
>> > There’s a pull request for icu-config removal that we could apply to 
>> > -base. It might warrant a release.
>> 
>> Yes, I have been thinking about that pull request. The problem is that this 
>> will break icu on systems where the pkg config for icu isn’t present. I 
>> think this has been around for at least six years. This should be long 
>> enough even for GNUstep standards. :-(
> 
> 
> The icu-config script used to be the recommended method for finding the 
> libraries. I just liked at the documentation and pkg-config is now 
> recommended, so making this change would just guarantee future compatibility. 
> Per the latest ICU documentation, icu-config is deprecated.
> 
>> > If the answer is yes, if you can help me by updating the 
>> > (non-autogenerated) pieces of the release notes, that would help me a bit.
>> > 
>> > If the answer is yes, I would be cutting the release on a weekend.
>> 
>> Great, but please give me a bit more time.
>> 
>> Fred
>> 
>> 
>> PS: Did you see the two pull requests for back today? The first one, that 
>> wasn’t a real pull request rather a question about the code, has triggered 
>> me to rethink the removal of RContext. Perhaps somebody else could have a 
>> look too?
>> 
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