[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Preparation for a GNUstep (and libobjc) transition

[Yavor Doganov]

Greetings, debianized GNUsteppers!

It is time to roll up our sleeves again for the next GNUstep
transition.  We're not pressed by the release timeline now, but it is
a fact that GNUstep development on a sid system is impossible due the
new Objective-C runtime in GCC 4.6.

GNUstep Base/1.22.0 and GUI/0.20.0 are already in experimental,
Back/0.20.1 is in the NEW queue.  I rebuilt all GNUstep packages in
the archive, and the good news is that we have only 5 bugs to fix (as
opposed to 33 during the last transition):

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=tag&users=pkg-gnustep-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org&data=gnustep-base1.22-transition

Looking at the "principal" maintainers, it's 3 bugs for Gürkan
(gorm.app, gridlock.app, talksoup.app), 1 for Federico (gnustep-dl2)
and 1 for me (lynkeos.app).  As usual, I'll look at the other bugs as
soon as I manage to fix mine.

Please work on these bugs and tag them accordingly when the fix is
ready.  When all of them are tagged, I'll send a formal request for
the transition to the release team.

As is always the case, there are runtime bugs to be expected, so test
carefully.

Orphaned packages
=================
Still quite a few, some were removed from the archive during the
squeeze cycle following requests from the QA team.  I'll send a
separate message once the transition is completed.

Git migration
=============
I have migrated almost all Arch-maintained packages to Git
repositories.  I left only a few, that were bare Arch archives created
with tbp-importdsc with no subsequent development -- it's better to
use git-import-dscs for them.

Here is the full list of the repos:

agenda.app.git
batmon.app.git
charmap.app.git
cynthiune.app.git
edenmath.app.git
etoile.git
gnumail.git
gnustep-back.git
gnustep-base.git
gnustep-examples.git
gnustep-gui.git
gnustep-make.git
gnustep-netclasses.git
grr.app.git
gtamsanalyzer.app.git
helpviewe.app.git
lusernet.app.git
lynkeos.app.git
meta-gnustep.git
mknfonts.tool.git
mpdcon.app.git
pantomime.git
plopfolio.app.git
poe.app.git
popplerkit.git
projectcenter.app.git
renaissance.git
steptalk.git
systempreferences.app.git
wrapperfactory.app.git