Re: Cutting a gnustep-gui release

2016-12-16 Thread Eric Heintzmann
Hi, Le 15/12/2016 à 12:23, Ivan Vučica a écrit : > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016, 22:47 Riccardo Mottola > mailto:riccardo.mott...@libero.it>> wrote: > > Hi, > > Ivan Vučica wrote: > > Let me know if you would like me to delay or to sync with > another release. > > current gui has some

Re: Cutting a gnustep-gui release

2016-12-16 Thread Ivan Vučica
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Eric Heintzmann wrote: > Debian Stretch will be fully frozen on 2017-02-05. > A special release before this date, with all you want to see in the next > debian stable distro, would be a good idea. > > (The current status of Stretch is "transition freeze", it means

Re: Cutting a gnustep-gui release

2016-12-16 Thread Stefan Bidigaray
Hi Ivan, I would assume, as a minimum, the soname cannot change. GNUstep does have a habit of incrementing the soname with MINOR release number bumps, even if the ABI remains unchanged. For example, Debian's current version of GNUstep base in testing is 1.24.9, and the package name is libgnustep-b

Re: Cutting a gnustep-gui release

2016-12-16 Thread Ivan Vučica
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Stefan Bidigaray wrote: > Hi Ivan, > I would assume, as a minimum, the soname cannot change. GNUstep does have > a habit of incrementing the soname with MINOR release number bumps, even if > the ABI remains unchanged. > > For example, Debian's current version of G

Re: Cutting a gnustep-gui release

2016-12-16 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
> On 15 Dec 2016, at 11:23, Ivan Vučica wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016, 22:47 Riccardo Mottola > wrote: > Hi, > > Ivan Vučica wrote: > > Let me know if you would like me to delay or to sync with another release. > > current gui has some important fixes done by fred: they could be > backport

Re: Cutting a gnustep-gui release

2016-12-16 Thread Eric Heintzmann
Le 16/12/2016 à 17:35, Ivan Vučica a écrit : > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Stefan Bidigaray > mailto:stefanb...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi Ivan, > I would assume, as a minimum, the soname cannot change. GNUstep > does have a habit of incrementing the soname with MINOR release >

Re: Cutting a gnustep-gui release

2016-12-16 Thread Eric Heintzmann
Hi Le 16/12/2016 à 17:53, Richard Frith-Macdonald a écrit : > There are quite a lot of bugfixes in trunk, so perhaps it would be worth > doing another 1.28.x release ... does anyone know how to use the debian tools > for checking abi compatibility to see if trunk really is abi compatible with