Mail Archives: geda-user/2011/11/24/14:24:11
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?
>
> Justyn
>
> [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/pcb
I think we have one or two internationalization bugs that need
to be fixed. (Specifically, the gerber exporter output uses ','
instead of '.' all over the place, and we should test save/load.)
Glancing at launchpad, there don't seem to be any other showstoppers.
How much time do we have before package freeze?
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