[Xastir] Time for another official Xastir release?

[Lee Bengston]

While it's fine to prioritize Debian and Fedora, "all others" are not
downstream from those 2.  OpenSUSE comes to mind.

Lee - K5DAT


On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 3:25 PM, David A Aitcheson <
david.aitcheson at gmail.com> wrote:

David,
>
> Ubuntu auto updates from Debian as it is a derivative of Debian so the
> priorities as I see things would be Debian and Fedora because all others
> are down stream from them.
>
> Once a release is in place, and BTW Debian just did a 2.0.7 of Xastir in
> the last month, then noise for the down-streams and back-ports can be
> made via filing bug reports that are in essence wish list requests.
>
> Dave
> KB3EFS
>
>
> On 06/27/2016 03:17 PM, David Ranch wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > Most linux distributions take a while to take on new packages and they
> > will ONLY do so with official releases.  Xastir's last official
> > release was 2.0.6 which was released 2014-09-12 which is approaching
> > TWO years ago.  Maybe enough fixes have come in to consider tagging a
> > 2.0.7 release (maybe it's worthy of a 2.1.0 versioning)?  Once done,
> > we should make some noise with the various distro packagers (Debian,
> > Ubuntu, Fedora, etc) to get them to both kick off builds for their
> > upcoming distro versions but also try to get them to backport 2.0.7 to
> > their other already-released / stable distros too.
> >
> > --David
> > KI6ZHD
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