Re: Debian Packages of 2.2.1

Hi Axel,

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 12:38:28PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi Klaumi, hi Jorge,
> 
> Klaumi Klingsporn schrieb am Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 03:32:57PM +0200:
> > only to let you know: I built some Debian packages of the stable
> > release 2.2.1 today which can be found at:
> 
> Looks as it the binary package is statically linked against FLTK 2
> which is not part of the source package nor in the build-dependencies,
> i.e. it must be installed manually to be able to build the package.
> Ugly, but understable.
> 
> FLTK 2 never was in Debian mainly because first it had a non-free
> license, and when that was fixed it became deprecated.

  Yes, we worked on the license issue with the FLTK team...

> Being an
> alpha-version was way less the problem. Such things can go into Debian
> Experimental and often also do.

  Sure, and policy was the main obstacle for all distros.
(absolutely understandable to my taste).

> > [...]
> > After doing that I saw, that Axel Beckert just built packages of
> > dillo3 for experimental.
> 
> Yep, did that at DebCamp between the timestamp of the 2.2.1 ChangeLog
> (17.7., see http://hg.dillo.org/dillo/file/tip/ChangeLog) and when it
> was uploaded (26.7. according to http://www.dillo.org/download/). So
> the release of 2.2.1 was new to me. (I really should subscribe to the
> Dillo ML. :-)

  Or you can subscribe to freshmeat for the announcements.
(and avoid the mailing-list traffic).

> I packaged Dillo 3 as that's the only Dillo version which currently
> compiles in Debian, i.e. with all build-dependencies available in
> Debian.
> 
> > So hopefully Dillo will return to Debian in near future.
> 
> As soon as Dillo 3 has been released I plan to upload it to unstable,
> too. FLTK 1.3 is in unstable only for a few weeks yet, too, as the
> final release happened there just recently, too. It was in
> experimental for half a year or so before.

  Good!

  We have dillo-3.0 scheduled for release in August.

  (BTW, fltk-1.3 already made it into squeeze).

  Thanks for the update.

-- 
  Cheers
  Jorge.-