[Xastir] Time for another official Xastir release?

David A Aitcheson david.aitcheson at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 18:11:31 PDT 2016


HA! Proof that I can be WRONG!

Thank you Lee.

Dave
KB3EFS


On 06/28/2016 09:06 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
> 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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