[Pkg-electronics-devel] gEDA 1.6.0 packages (and packaging)

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:20:50AM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 09:52 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> > Does the new source package continue the changelog from one of the old
> > packages, or is it brand new?
> 
> Since it coupled all the old geda-* packages into one, I couldn't really
> imagine how to merge them sensibly. I started from scratch.
> 
> Note that the new source package is "geda-gaf", matching the upstream
> version. I hope this will be acceptable.

That will be fine. It will need manual NEW processing by the
ftp-masters, but it would have with any name because the binary packages
all come from one source now. Matching the upstream is best.

> Offtopic: Gah.. Evolution seems to be doing a bad job of displaying the
> RTL script in your name, Ahmed!

Mutt is displaying it fine on emails I receive directly from Ahmed or
via pkg-electronics-devel, but I notice it is displayed incorrectly on
the messages I receive from mentors.debian.net. I suspect it is
corrupting it - do you see the same thing Ahmed?

> I'm not completely sure how it _should_ display, but I would presume the
> correct thing is it displaying to the right of the associated email
> address portion?

I am seeing the usual "Name <address>" format here.

regards
Hamish