[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#741890: New upstream release of arb (Was: Bug#741890: arb: FTBFS with libpng16)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Elmar,

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 09:30:06AM +0100, Elmar Pruesse wrote:
> The 6.0rc1 should come out this week. There are only a few minor things
> left to do (such as writing the announcement).

That's good to know.
 
> As these things go, there will probably be a 6.0rc2, though. So while
> I'd love to see the exposure from getting the rc1 into unstable, I'm not
> up to date on Debian policy.

Policy only says *how* to package not *what* to package.  We try to get
the code which is in our user interest and you as upstream are best
qualified to decide what might fit your users best.

> The stability of the rc1 is much higher
> than when we did the 5.0, so I feel very much at ease with it. Since the
> 5.5 doesn't work on OSX 10.9, Matt Cottrell will also be uploading the
> rc into MacPorts soon (if he hasn't already).
> 
> You can find a source tarball here:
> ftp://ftp.arb-silva.de/ARB/builds/tagged/arb-5.21/

Well, currently we are observing

   http://download.arb-home.de/release/

and it would help if we could stick to one single download location.

If we agree hereby to the exception that I might pick manually

   ftp://ftp.arb-silva.de/ARB/builds/tagged/arb-5.21-rc1/arb-5.21-rc1-source.tgz

this could be done.  However, I also do not really understand the
version numbering.  Is this a prerelease for Arb version 5.21 or a
release candidate for 6.0?  In the later case this would end up in the
Debian version 6.0~rc1.  Is this correct and in your interest?

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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