Re: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#746003: Bug#760986: RM: guile-1.8 -- ROM; replaced by guile-2.0
أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> [1] It has been in git
> (https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/g-wrap.git) since 8 months
> ago, yet Hideki Yamane forgot to upload for some reason, hopefully he
> will upload it soon.
I'm skeptical about uploading a major new upstream version when there's
effectively no Debian maintainer for it.
Assuming we do end up keeping Guile 1.8 in jessie (which we may, perhaps
for lilypond, if nothing else), then I suppose we'll have to decide
which is worse: leaving the existing unmaintained 1.8-based packages(s)
alone, or making major upstream release NMUs, with no active maintainers
to back them up.
Of course the alternative is to just remove the relevant 1.8-based
packages from Debian, which is what the Guile upstream has requested --
i.e. they'd prefer that when possible we just remove any packages from
Debian that have Guile 2.0 support upstream, but not in Debian.
Thanks
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Rob Browning
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