[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#539393: The gnustep packages are not new enough in the Debian stable release.

[Paul Csanyi]

Package: gnustep
Version: 7.3
Severity: important

The gnustep packages are not new enough even in the Debian unstable release.

unstable versions:
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gnustep-make-2.0.8
gnustep-base-1.19.0
gnustep-gui-0.16.0
gnustep-back-0.16.0
projectcenter.app-0.5.0~20080704
gorm.app-1.2.8

the newest tarball (.tar.gz) versions:
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GNUstep Make - 2.2.0
GNUstep Base - 1.19.1
GNUstep GUI - 0.17.0
GNUstep Back - 0.17.0
Project Center - 0.5.0
Gorm - 1.2.8

The tarballs are downloadable from here:
http://www.gnustep.org/softwareindex/

One can't or can but very hurd to develop in Objectice-C using Projectcenter 
and Gorm. In the newest tarballs there are fixed many bugs and 
hopefully is much easier to develop with it.

The Projectcenter and Gorm has not the Hungarian translation too in the 
Debian stable release.  I did this translation but in the stable 
gnustep sources and build them into debian packages.  I wish to do 
translation in to the newest gnustep sources and get them in to the 
stable Debian release or in to the Debian Backport repository.

I'm not a Debian maintainer and I don't know how to build Debian 
packages from tarball sources, but I'll try to follow this documentation:
http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

to get debian packages from the newest tarballs.

--
Regards,
Paul Chany


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnustep depends on:
ii  camera.app           0.8.0-8+b1          GNUstep application for digital st
ii  charmap.app          0.2-9+b1            Character map for GNUstep
ii  gworkspace.app       0.8.6-1+b1          GNUstep Workspace Manager
ii  mknfonts.tool        0.5-9+b1            Create nfont packages for GNUstep
ii  open.app             0.1+20061029-3+b1   GNUstep open tool
ii  preferences.app      1.2.100.0-4+b1      GNUstep Preferences application
ii  preview.app          0.8.5-5+b1          General purpose image viewer for G
ii  terminal.app         0.9.4+cvs20051125-5 Terminal Emulator for GNUstep
ii  textedit.app         4.0+20061029-3+b1   Text editor for GNUstep
ii  zipper.app           1.3-2               Tool for inspecting the contents o

Versions of packages gnustep recommends:
ii  gnumail.app 1.2.0~pre3+snap20071004-4+b1 fully featured mail application
ii  gnustep-exa 1:1.2.0-2+b1                 GNUstep Example Applications
ii  gnustep-ico 1.0-4                        Several free icons for use with GN
ii  talksoup.ap 1.0alpha-32-g55b4d4e-1+b1    IRC client for GNUstep
ii  viewpdf.app 1:0.2dfsg1-3+b1              Portable Document Format (PDF) vie
ii  wmaker      0.92.0-8                     NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X

Versions of packages gnustep suggests:
pn  aclock.app                  <none>       (no description available)
pn  agenda.app                  <none>       (no description available)
pn  biococoa.app                <none>       (no description available)
pn  bubblefishymon              <none>       (no description available)
ii  cenon.app                   3.83-1+b1    Vector graphics tool for GNUstep
pn  clipbook.app                <none>       (no description available)
ii  cynthiune.app               0.9.5-7.1    A free software and romantic music
pn  displaycalibrator.app       <none>       (no description available)
pn  easydiff.app                <none>       (no description available)
pn  edenmath.app                <none>       (no description available)
ii  gnuwash.app                 0.1-5+b1     Configurable timer with alarm for 
pn  gwremote.app                <none>       (no description available)
ii  helpviewer.app              0.3-6        Online help viewer for GNUstep pro
ii  innerspace.app              0.2.0-4+b1   Screensaver for GNUstep
ii  latex.service               0.1-5+b1     LaTeX service for GNUstep
pn  lusernet.app                <none>       (no description available)
pn  mpdcon.app                  <none>       (no description available)
pn  plopfolio.app               <none>       (no description available)
pn  poe.app                     <none>       (no description available)
ii  price.app                   0.8.2+dfsg-2 Image filtering and manipulation u
pn  stepulator.app              <none>       (no description available)
ii  timemon.app                 4.0.0-3+b1   CPU time usage monitor for GNUstep
pn  volumecontrol.app           <none>       (no description available)
pn  wildmenus.bundle            <none>       (no description available)
ii  wmmixer                     1.5-10       mixer application designed for Win
pn  wmnd                        <none>       (no description available)
pn  wmpinboard                  <none>       (no description available)

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