Re: Slightly OT: Debian Community Poll

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

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 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

OK, that's Debian 5.0 "Lenny" which was released in February 2009.  No
wonder the packages in it are > 1.5 years old.

> Linking to it gives unresolved references:
>
> gtk_source_view_set_mark_category_background
> gtk_source_view_get_mark_category_background
> gtk_source_view_set_draw_spaces
> gtk_source_language_manager_guess_language
>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/558676 RM: gtksourceview -- ROM; old, superseded, unmaintained upstream
>> 
>> 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.
>
>> PS. Debian policy is to *always* build packages on unstable unless you
>> want to fix a security bug in stable.
>
> Yet gcc is still at 4.3.

Feel free to continue using stable as your main system; you can either
upgrade it to unstable or install unstable in a chroot, see [1].

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ada/2010/02/msg00003.html

If you want to upgrade your main system instead, there is an
Ada-specific recipe for that in the upcoming Debian Policy for Ada
(Fifth Edition) which I'm about to publish in a few days (I'm waiting
for the availablility of GNAT GPL 2010):

http://green.ada-france.org:8081/revision/file/77ab86dc2e38b0012c38bae2d61dd134d2c1db70/debian-ada-policy.texi

Look for "In-place upgrades".

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.