Re: Slightly OT: Debian Community Poll

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

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

--
Ludovic Brenta.