[Gambas-user] Gambas on Debain....the struggle continues...

[Willy Raets]

Want to know the status of Gambas on Debian. Check:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gambas3.html

Some funny facts there:
On their TO DO list:
- A new upstream version is available: 3.4.2, you should consider
packaging it.

On their news list:
[2013-08-17] gambas3 3.1.1-2.2 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2013-08-06] Accepted 3.1.1-2.2 in unstable (low) (Pino Toscano)
[2013-06-15] gambas3 3.1.1-2.1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2013-06-04] Accepted 3.1.1-2.1 in unstable (low) (Dmitrijs Ledkovs)

Seems they are not really taking their TODO's seriously...

Something of interest to Benoît and the other developers is what is in
the part 'testing migration':
- This package will soon be part of the libglew1.9 transition. You might
want to ensure that your package is ready for it. You can probably find
supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the
corresponding release.debian.org bug.
- This package will soon be part of the poppler transition. You might
want to ensure that your package is ready for it. You can probably find
supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the
corresponding release.debian.org bug.

Meaning that both libglwe1.9 and poppler will break because of a to low
a version. Details can be found following the links on their site. But
this is for Gambas 3.1.1 in their repo. Maybe 3.4.2 doesn't have that
dependency problem.

Meanwhile effort is done to get 3.4.2 in their repositories. Let's hope
for the best..


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Kind regards,

Willy (aka gbWilly)

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