Mail Archives: geda-user/2011/11/26/14:39:26
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 05:28:18PM +0000, Justyn Butler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded to the PCB 20110918 snapshot in the last week and I'm
> finding it solves various problems I had with the previous snapshot.
> Congratulations and thanks to the devs.
>
> The next version of Ubuntu, 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) is in development
> and due for release in April 2012. It is one of the every-two-years
> Long Term Support releases, which means it gets used for longer and
> they are more conservative about package updates during development. I
> understand that for LTS releases they sync from Debian "testing"
> instead of "unstable".
>
> PCB 20110918 is currently in Debian unstable but not testing. So at
> the moment I think the version of PCB due for release in 12.04 is
> 20100929, which will be more than 18 months old in April [1].
>
> Given the large number of bug fixes etc since the last snapshot (and
> because PCB is a non-essential package) I would expect that a sync
> request for pcb from unstable would be accepted, if I've understood
> the process correctly.
> Does that sound sensible? If so shall I do it, or does someone else
> better know what they're doing?
>
Devs,
How are things looking for a new bugfix release? The problems I have
been concerned about are all fixed:
1. Saving grid spacing precisely and backward-compatible
2. Save/load problem with route styles
3. i18n problem with gerber exporter
If there are no more segfaults or save/load problems, IMHO we are good
to go. It will be nice to see a newer version than 20090929 showing up
in distributions.
--
Andrew Poelstra
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