Hi Eric, On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 12:18:35PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: > > I got another bug report today because my gs package in testing is > > incredibly outdated because libgimpprint1 is not available there. > > The reason seems to be that there are a few high severity bugs > > blocking the installation of your packages into testing. > > Those bugs should be downgraded. There's no reason they should be > marked as they are. So why didn't you do that as the maintainer ;-) I sent an email to control@bugs to lower the severity. > > Now I noticed that a new upstream release of gimp-print is available > > Yes, I have the new release in preparation. The previous release > was unpackagable so I didn't upload it. Hmm, what do you mean by "unpackable"? :-) I also downloaded the release before rc1 to check if the bug was gone weeks ago but I was unable to build a package from it - is that what you mean? > > I stumbled across the fact that the upstream tarball contains a > > debian tree as well and conflicts with the Debian diff quite a bit. > > Roger and I coordinate these releases. The build system we have in > place is a little complicated. Please note that there are two > branches in the upstream CVS, one dedicated specifically to Debian. Ah, okay. My impression was that both of you are packaging gimp-print in competition to each other. > > Now I am wondering why two persons are maintaining a package of > > gimp-print - this looks like wasted effort for me. > > Two persons? You mean Roger? We work together. It's not wasted > effort, it's shared development. ack > > Also it stopped me from preparing a package suitable for NMU since > > I don't have any idea which of the big number of changes in the > > Debian diff have to get into the next package. > > It's a very complicated build. I'd prefer if you can wait rather than > NMU. I'll have a new package up this weekend. Tonight if I can, but > I don't know yet. Of course I will wait. Thanks for your timely response. Even only lowering the severity of the bugs works for me - I only need a package gs can link against. If the broken libgimpprint1 means that the stp drivers don't work - tough. gs 6.51 would still be much better than gs 5.50 :-) Luck Torsten
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