X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:35:02 -0800 From: Andrew Poelstra To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB sync request for the upcoming Ubuntu long term support release Message-ID: <20111126193502.GA4766@malakian.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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 Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net Web: http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew "I don't understand. Are you saying dualism is always good, or always bad?"