[Debian GNUstep maintainers] new GNUstep packages available for testing

[Hubert Chan]

Hi everyone,

On Tue, 16 May 2006 00:19:31 -0400, Hubert Chan said:

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> What I plan to do is:
[...]
> - upload the new -base, -gui, and -back to my on personal repository
> for public testing.  It will not hurt to change your package to
> compile against these new packages, since I am dropping the SONAME
> from the -dev package names, and so in the future, no package changes
> will need to be done when the new GNUstep libraries are released --
> just a recompile will be needed.

I have put the currently-released GNUstep libraries in my personal apt
archive.  You can fetch them by using the apt sources line:
  deb http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/debian gnustep main

Or you can download them manually from:
  http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/debian/

Note that when you install the new libraries, any programs linked
against the old gnustep-gui library will not work.  This is unavoidable
since the SONAME was bumped on -base, but not on -gui.

(There also appears to be a minor issue with GNUMail -- if you upgrade
GNUMail, make sure that libpantomime1.2 is also upgraded.)

*For all maintainers*: to build against these and all future GNUstep
libraries, you will need to change your build-depends to
libgnustep-base-dev (>= 1.12.0) and libgnustep-gui-dev (>= 0.10.3)
instead of build-depending on libgnustep-base1.11-dev and
libgnustep-gui0.10-dev.  This should make all future library transitions
easier.

> - I'll try to rebuild a bunch of applications with the new libraries,
> and have them available on my personal repository, so that people who
> want to try the new libraries can do so.

I have also rebuilt a few applications that I do not maintain.  You can
fetch them from:
  deb http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/debian/nmu/ ./

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