Why does Wesnoth stay in experimental?

[Gerfried Fuchs]

	Hi! :)

* Andreas Tille <tillea at rki.de> [2009-03-17 07:40:39 CET]:
> I did some testing if the latter Wesnoth prereleases and I wonder whether
> Wesnoth should stay in experimental for such a long time.

 Because wesnoth follows the (ancient) kernel appoach of having even
minor versions for their stable releases and odd versions for their
devleopment releases. Development releases are often enough incompatible
with their former version - like I started the campaign The South Guard
with 1.5.6 or such and now am able to run over walls with some of my
units because changed statistics to them. This is *nothing* that we want
to push anywhere near a stable release.

> I understood it once Lenny was not released but now it is definitely
> time for unstable

 Not for a 1.5 version.

> from a Debian point of view and from a Wesnoth development status as well

 I doubt that you know very much about the Wesnoth development status -
I'm quite closely involved with it and have the blessing of the team in
mostly every form.

> because we are even in the prerelease phase which perfectly fits things in
> Debian which is called *unstable*.

 Yes, but still uploads to unstable should be in a state that can get
considered to be part of a release at some point. The development branch
of wesnoth isn't.

> People who are running unstable and might whine about breaking their
> savegames should be aware of this or just pin their older versions.

 That's a quite ignorant statement - with the same reasoning we could
close all bugreports filed against unstable packages because it's
unstable.

> The reason why I'm writing is that you prevent me from continued tests
> because I always have to download the source and build myself since
> wesnoth-core is not autobuilded for my arch (i386)

 Erm, beg your pardon? I can't follow that, _at all_. i386 _is_
autobuilt and in the pool. Can you pretty please check the pool before
bringing up false reasonings?

> Thanks for maintaining wesnoth

 Thanks for thinking along. Sorry if this respond sounds a bit harsh -
and in some few hours you might even be pleased because 1.6 gets
finalized today. I am also in contact with ubuntu people so that the
1.6 release might get a chance to get into jaunty, even if it's
extremely stretching their regular schedule for packages.

 Oh, and on a different level: Wow, I was extremely impressed by your
quick fix of the bugreport I opened to one of your packages this
morning, I guess I must have hit perfect timing. ... to some degree same
to you with this mail because of the upcoming 1.6 release. ;)

 So long!
Rhonda [who's going to check a last patch for the German language
   wesnoth manual ...]