[Xastir] Propose a new Xastir release?

[Ken Koster]

On Tuesday, June 27, 2017 10:38:24 AM PDT Ken Koster wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 27, 2017 9:12:55 AM PDT David Ranch wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> > 
> > > If you're running Xastir on an RPi you will need to build from source
> > > since the version of Xastir installed by raspian is ancient and
> > > unfortunately was the version handed out to 100+ attendees of the RPi
> > > workshop at SeaPac a few weeks ago.
> > 
> > This is a common issue with stable applications that live out of their
> > SCM system and don't create official releases very often. Even with an
> > official release being published, most distro package managers are just
> > volunteers and they aren't always on top of when something new is
> > available.  Regardless, step one is to get a new Xastir version released
> > and then we can pursue with the Debian, Fedora, etc. package managers.
> > 
> > Do we think the current state of Xastir is worthy of an official release?
> 
> 2.0.8 stable was released last July and is in most distributions,  including
> Debian on which Rasbian is based.  

Replying to myself I take that last back.   I just checked OpenSUSE which is what I use 
and they're still back on 2.0.6,  even on the Tumbleweed rolling release.   So Debian is 
the only one I can confirm is good.

> Imagine my surprise at the workshop
> when I found a version so old that the Internet maps didn't even work.  At
> the time I said I would look into why it wasn't picked up for the RPi but
> just haven't taken the time yet.
> 
> As for a new release I think there are a couple of things in the latest that
> might make a release worthwhile but I'll let Curt speak up about that.
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