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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:43:23 +0200
From: Juergen Harms <Juergen DOT Harms AT unige DOT ch>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] failed tests
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How deal with this issue?

Personally, I dont really mind staying with an old version, although 
20110918 certainly has more "user-value". The principal reason for me to 
install the new release was to get things ready for building and making 
available an rpm package of pcb (and gerbv) for Mageia (I am picking up 
geda tools for maintenance - doing this with an obsolete version would 
be a pity).

The conservative approach would be to just wait and see whether the 
problem is reproduced elsewhere (for instance when Mandriva will use 
20110918 for an update package; but Mandriva just published a new 
release, and it will probably be quite a while until they think about 
updating). I also had a rapid look at Fedora and Ubuntu - both appear to 
have not yet released a stable package with PCB 20110918. Which distros do?

Being conservative means shelving the problem for months (and not having 
a pcb package for Mageia 2 that is scheduled for this winter). Is there 
a debugging option I could activate to get more input on what is happening?