[Pkg-ace-devel] 6.0.1

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Thomas Girard <thomas.g.girard at free.fr> wrote:
> Le 16/02/2011 20:27, Thomas Girard a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> Le 13/02/2011 23:08, Pau Garcia i Quiles a écrit :
>>> I have created a tag for 6.0.0-1 and updated trunk to 6.0.1-1 (still
>>> using source format 1.0). As I cannot upload yet (I plan to apply for
>>> DM very soon, and later for DD), I have uploaded the source package
>>> for 6.0.1 to mentors:
>>>
>>> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/ace/
>>
>> Great, thanks! I'll have a look at this hopefully tomorrow.
>
> Sounds good. I removed some old transitioning packages, and forced the
> dependency on Tcl/Tk >= 8.5.

I'd prefer if we kept those transitioning packages for some more time

Rationale:
- Ubuntu is based on Debian and is one of the most popular Linux distributions
- Ubuntu releases a Long Term Support version every 3 years (roughly)
- Corporate users, especially on servers, usually upgrade only from
LTS to LTS. The next Ubuntu LTS will probably be released in April
2012.
- The latest Ubuntu LTS (10.04, AKA "Lucid Lynx") contains ACE 5.6.3-6
- Some of the transitioning packages contain stuff for gperf-ace,
libace-dev, etc << 5.7.7, which means it affects the latest Ubuntu LTS

We are not Ubuntu and do not have an obligation, but IMHO keeping the
transitioning stuff does not impact negatively in our packaging
efforts and it will make life easier for Ubuntu in the next upgrade

> What about adding libACE_INet package? Since we will have to go to NEW,
> it's better to add all new packages at once if we feel like we need
> them.

I'll try to look into that this weekend.

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
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(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)