Il giorno Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:30:28 -0300 "Erick Mattos" <erick.mattos@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Hello David, Hi Erick, > I am the owner of the ITP and I had been trying to add Code::Blocks to > Debian repositories. > I had created the packages more than once but always having to change > something to fulfill mentor's demands. When everything was looking like it > would be finally solved then Code::Blocks team started to use the new > updated version of wxWidgets 2.8 which is not in the repositories. I just realized that after sending my reply to that ITP :( > I had tried to ask the maintainer of the previous versions for a new version > but he told me he wasn't in accordance that the new version was really stable > and that he was not intending to add it to the repositories and that he > thought it was better to wait for a version 3.0 of wxWidgets which was > planned to be released on last January. Can't we propose him to upload it to experimental? That wouldn't hurt unstable (thus also testing -- and stable) users, but we could still have Code::Blocks inside Debian repositories. > After talking to a debian developer friend of mine for councils he argued to > me that it is not a good policy to build the uptodate version of wxWidgets > passing over the previous maintainer opinions and that he thought it would be > a good idea to wait for him to update wxWidgets before packaging Code::Blocks > again. Afterwards I realized that: > > - the point-of-view of wxWidgets maintainer should be respected; > - Code::Blocks is not really a stable software for now although I am > using it anyway; > - I do not intend to fork their work to make Code::Blocks compatible > to the previous version wxWidgets 2.6; > - I had been talking to the Code::Blocks creator and he thinks it will > be better to package it after the release of 1.0 stable version. Fully agree w.r.t. respecting upstream's decisions (ando also other maintainers') > Then I was forced to wait for this situation to be cleared up into any > direction before continuing the work and to accept that Debian distro really > gets stuck some times if some dependecies could not be satisfied by > community or even by one's point-of-view. Again, why don't you propose it for experimental? > I have uploaded a lot of packages to debian mentors and the > first-before-last package is still available there so if you want you can > see it by yourself. I'm currently using packages provided by the Code::Blocks team itself, plus the wxWidgets from wxwidgets.org: deb http://jens.lody.name/debian/ any main deb-src http://jens.lody.name/debian/ any main deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ etch-wx main > If you would like, I can forward all my communications to all of the people > involved. Sure: I've changed "netzmeister" to Matthias Gutmann <MatthiasGutmann@gmx.net> (which is the real name / address). Before your reply we were planning on team-maintaining Code::Blocks -- if it was the case. What do you think about this? (again: I'm talking about an experimental package -- not unstable as its dependencies wouldn't be satisfied in Debian at the moment) Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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