Hello, release team, Due to licensing issues, we have been unable to legally update the core GNUstep libraries (gnustep-base, gnustep-gui, gnustep-back) to the latest upstream versions while keeping all our applications. This issue has recently been resolved, and so the GNUstep team would like to update the GNUstep libraries in Debian to either the latest upstream "unstable" release, or the upcoming upstream "stable" release (which should be released hopefully this Saturday or so). However, this will involve a soname bump for the libraries, so this is a library transition.
This transition should be much less painful than the last GNUstep transition that we had; the last GNUstep transition involved extensive changes to the build system, which required a lot of editing of source files. This transition should be able to be handled by just recompiling most of the packages (a few packages may need a bit of editing, but those should be the minority), and so should be mostly handled by binNMUs, except in the case where we also want to update to new versions of certain applications. Please let us know if we can go ahead with planning a transition, or what steps we should be taking. We already have a fairly recent version of gnustep-base, gnustep-gui, and gnustep-back in experimental for maintainers to try compiling their packages against. Thanks. The current reverse build-dependencies of libgnustep-base-dev and libgnustep-gui-dev are: aclock.app addresses-for-gnustep adun.app affiche agenda.app batmon.app biococoa.app camera.app cenon.app charmap.app cynthiune.app displaycalibrator.app easydiff.app edenmath.app etoile ftp.app gnumail gnustep-dl2 gnustep-examples gnustep-netclasses gnuwash.app gomoku.app gorm.app gridlock.app gtamsanalyzer.app gworkspace helpviewer.app innerspace.app latex.service lusernet.app lynkeos.app mines.app mknfonts.tool mpdcon.app oolite open.app paje.app pantomime1.2 plopfolio.app poe.app popplerkit.framework preferences.app preview.app price.app projectcenter.app projectmanager.app remotedesk renaissance rssreader.app shisen.app stepbill.app steptalk stepulator.app talksoup.app terminal.app textedit.app timemon.app viewpdf.app volumecontrol.app wrapperfactory.app zipper.app With the exception of a few, which we would want to provide new upstream releases (and I can provide a list of them later), they should all be able to be transitioned via binNMUs. -- Hubert Chathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA
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