[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#561944: GNUstep transition

[Federico Giménez Nieto]

Hi Yavor,

2010/8/8 Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org>:
[...]
> The fix for #581934 (gnustep-dl2) depends on -base/-gui versions from
> experimental, plus a fixed gorm.app.  I don't know how the maintainer
> is planning to deal with it, I hope he's waiting for a fixed gorm.app
> + Debian-specific soname because of the ABI break.  Federico?

Yes, when all the required packages will be ready i'll try, probably
with a little help from your side :), to fix any remaining issues.

> (I withdraw part of what I said in the bug log: a snapshot of upstream's
> repository ought to be out of question now, given that in the past few
> months it has been rewritten from scratch...)
>
> In any case, gorm.app and gnustep-dl2 are one of the few packages that
> will definitely require sourceful uploads.
>

Then, should we suggest upstream to introduce the distro-specific
soname or should we try to modify it by ourselves?

Cheers,
Federico