[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#561944: Bits from the (chilly) release team

[Neil McGovern]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 07:00:00PM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Neil McGovern wrote:
> > As mentioned in the previous mail, we would freeze when various
> > transitions are completed or being handled.
> 
> I sincerely hope you haven't forgetten #561944, and that ditching
> GNUstep packages out of squeeze is not your plan.
> 
> It is somewhat depressing that we've been waiting for more than 8
> months without a single word from you ("Wait until further notice",
> "Wait for...", "No chance... because...", etc.).

We certainly hadn't forgotton about it, and please accept my apologies
for not getting back to you sooner or being able to handle this
transition before the freeze.

> Confirming again that we're ready to commence the GNUstep transition
> as soon as the Release Team approves it, and we'll fix all breakages
> in due time.  For what we can't fix, we will act aggressively: "ROM"
> removals from the archive (but if we can't fix these things, what does
> "maintainers" stand for?).

Given the sheer amount of effort that has been put in so far, I agree
that it would be a shame not to have this in squeeze.

> AFAICT, only cynthiune.app is currently involved in an ongoing
> transition.  Traditionally, entagled transitions causing trouble have
> been poppler (0.14 postponed post-squeeze) and ffmpeg (no new stuff
> planned for squeeze TTBOMK).

I note that there are 4 bugs left that aren't fixed yet (one pending),
do you know when these are likely to be ready to transition?

Also, it's probably worth checking that the following are in progress...
[FROZEN] Package: gnustep-back-common (optional; Debian GNUstep maintainers et al.) [gnustep-back/0.16.0-3 ; =]
568307 [           ] Generates incomplete nfont bundles which makes the art backend unusable

[FROZEN] Package: gnustep-back0.16-cairo (optional; Debian GNUstep maintainers et al.) [gnustep-back/0.16.0-3 ; =]
585531 [           ] [Debian GNUstep maintainers] TimeMon Preferences window's weird	behavior

[FROZEN] Package: gnustep-gui (optional; Debian GNUstep maintainers et al.) [gnustep-gui/0.16.0-2 ; =]
558993 [           ] Subject: FTBFS: NSWindow.m:198: fatal error: method definition not in  @implementation context

Thanks,
Neil
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