[Pkg-electronics-devel] New gerbv release needs packaging

[Peter Clifton]

Hi,

I probably ought to have filed a bug.. but I never remember the right
URL / formatting!

Gerbv 2.4.0 is available here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gerbv/files/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gerbv/files/gerbv/gerbv-2.4.0/gerbv-2.4.0.tar.gz/download

(Along with checksums etc.. from the same place).


2.4.0 is mostly a bug-fix release after 2.3.0, but the developers
decided not to release a micro-update as they don't have the time to
keep maintaining old stable-branches, and it was felt that doing a
micro-release might imply that. 2.4.0 also features a couple of minor
feature additions as well as the host of bug fixes.

Not that this argument is usually particularly persuasive to Debian
devs, but I'm hoping to get a feature-freeze exception for gerbv 2.4.0
to go into Ubuntu Lucid.

As such.. if it were possible to introduce the gerbv-2.4.0-1 package
without major upheaval to its packaging, that would help me make a case
for the feature freeze exception. (I have to provide diffs etc..).

Best regards,

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)