On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 11:39 -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > I have noticed that 1.3 is not considered stable by upstream,
I haven't seen where they've said that. > with frequent bugfix releases. > > http://ledgersmb.org/node/465618 > http://ledgersmb.org/node/468617 > etc. "frequent" does not imply "unstable", especially for a new major version of an application, and in any case upstream has already said that their release cycle will be slowing down. > There are also packages for this release at: > > http://www.getdeb.net/software/ledgersmb An entirely unofficial set of packages. And we have experimental versions as well, the ledgersmb_1.3.9-1_all.deb at [1] for instance. (The stats say it's been downloaded but if so, no one has commented on how it's working for them...) I'm working on 1.3.9-2 now & will work on one for 1.3.10 when it comes out. The intent is to get a version into at least Debian Experimental fairly soon. > I think 1.3 should be the default LedgerSMB installed in Debian, since > this is what upstream suggests. And it will be. Currently, I'm mostly working on taking care of the issues that Lintian found. > However, I do think we should allow both > to be installed side by side since people (like me) have installed the > 1.2 packages and may not be ready for the (maybe) complicated upgrade > process. In what way do you think they could be installed "side by side"? IIRC, there is some functionality in 1.3.x to upgrade/update a 1.2.x database but I don't see a way to have both versions of the application itself that way and frankly I don't see the point. (If someone really has a need to have both available, like for testing, just put the other version(s) in a VPS.) > What's the status of the 1.2 package in Debian? What's the blocker? It > seems to me we should just upload 1.2.25 already... why? Upstream notes that it is not recommended for new installations and they also noted (back in October) that "community (free) support" for such 1.2.x versions is expected to be "fade away" fairly quickly. Jame [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ledger-smb/files/ledgersmb/1.3.9/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1325908386.29919.90.camel@svrpc
