Re: schedules Gnus releases
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> Upstream is planning on releasing Gnus 5.10.8, and No Gnus
> version 0.4, in a couple of days. I am soliciting comments on how
> Gnus packaging should be done for Debian.
>
> Sid already contains No guns 0.3, but sets the version as
> 5.10.6+<blargle> . Shipping Gnus 5.10.8 would essentially mean that
> people running Sid would have a downgrade, and is probably not
> desirable.
>
> If we ship No Gnus 0.4, the issue is again one of numbering,
> the reason upstream skipped 5.10.7 is because of us shipping No gnus,
> in part. I would like to prevent these in the future.
>
> So, we have either forcing people running Sid's Gnus to
> downgrade from No Gnus 0.3+ to 5.10.8, of ship an unreleased version
> and complicate versioning for future releases. Not a clean path
> going forward. I am inclined to continue to ship No Gnus, and
> hopefully Emacs and Gnus shall release soon, or at least before etch,
> and then etch would release is Gnus 5.11.
I'll admit that gnus version numbers have me baffled. Which is in the
Emacs CVS repository (and presumably included in emacs-snapshot)?
When gnus and MH-E that are currently in Emacs CVS are both released,
mh-e and gnus packages could share icons. Alternatively, the mh-e
package could depend on the gnus package since it adds much (highly)
recommended functionality anyway.
Just something more to think about.
--
Peter
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