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Bug#952560: please package new upstream snapshot



Hello Antoine,

On Tue 25 Feb 2020 at 02:40PM -05, Antoine Beaupre wrote:

> magit is at version 2.90 in Debian, which is over a year old. upstream
> has worked a lot on refactoring a lot of things upstream, and a bunch
> of third-party libraries have adapted to follow that.
>
> for example, magit-todos doesn't work with the latest magit version in
> Debian...
>
> could we maybe package a snapshot version in experimental, so that
> people could start to sync up? i'm afraid of a "one big release"
> approach that we seem to be heading towards, and which might break a
> bunch of stuff...
>
> it feels like everyone is using magit from MELPA right now, which
> seems far from ideal, especially when packages like magit-todos are
> entering debian, *relying* on versions from MELPA instead of Debian!

Magit 3.0 is due for release quite soon, AIUI, so I'd suggest we just
wait for that.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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