Re: Slightly OT: Debian Community Poll

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:06:15 -0700 (PDT), Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:25:41 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:46:50 +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>>>>> Which GtkSourceView package are you talking about and which version of
>>>>> Debian are you running?
>>>>
>>>> The latest one, fully updated:
>>>>
>>>> Distributor ID: � � � �Debian
>>>> Description: � Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.4 (lenny)
>>>> Release: � � � � � � � 5.0.4
>>>> Codename: � � � � � � �lenny
>>>>
>>>> dpkg -l shows:
>>>>
>>>> libgtksourceview2.0-dev 2.2.2-1
>>>>
>>>>> http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/gtksourceview2
>>>>>
>>>>> says the current version is 2.10.3-1; is that "ancient"?
>>>>
>>>> That could be better (by comparing version numbers (:-)), the only question
>>>> is how to get at it. Update/upgrade does not help.
>>
>>> 2.10.3-1 is from the "testing" distribution (sid).
>>
>> Yes, and?
>>
>> The things missing in the stable package of GtkSourceView are at least one
>> year old. I am wondering why this key GTK package is so poorly packaged.
> 
> It is not a key GTK+ package (few other packages depend on it) and it
> is not poorly packaged.

If you build a GUI, an ability to render and edit texts is not always, but
often, essential. Now I am not certain if other GTK parts are actual. There
might be issues, e.g. older GTK versions had nasty problems with drop down
windows.

>The only problem is your expectation that a
> 1.5-year-old stable (i.e. "long term support") distribution should
> contain packages that are less than one year old.

I indeed had this expectation. Staying under the shower of meaningless
"security updates" and other mess, I hoped that some useful packages might
get actualized as well. My fault. (:-))

> If you want recent
> packages, you should use testing (like I do) or unstable.

I will. Even GNAT GPL has shorter cycles. There should be a reason...

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