Re: [be] bibledit 3.6-1 packages are in Debian experimental now

[Jonathan Marsden]

Teus Benschop wrote:

> That is quite a milestone, to get it into Debian! I saw it was split up
> into packages bibledit and bibledit-data. It sounds all very good, thank
> you for pressing on with it.

Thanks; the split into two packages (one architecture-specific and one
architecture-independent) is is so that when packaged for many machine
architectures we do not waste FTP archive space by having all the data
files (like the icons and documentation) duplicated in a separate .deb
for each CPU type.  lintian (the Debian package checker) suggests this
when run against a single "all-in-one" bibledit package, so we split the
data out into its own package.

> There is no fixed timeline for a 3.7 release, but it was in my mind to
> fix the bugs that are currently open on the site, as far as possible,
> and then to make an announcement for an intended release. But if there's
> a need for a release to be be made sooner, or if it is felt that a new
> release now would be beneficial, then the release can be made earlier.
> Releasing often and early is a good thing.

There's no definite need or urgency.  I expect I'll be uploading another
version of the package soonish, that fixes some very minor lintian
messages which show up in packages built on Debian sid but not in Debian
Lenny or in Ubuntu.  If I knew you were going to make a 3.7 release in
the next two or three weeks I might just wait for that, rather than test
and upload a 3.6-2, and then do it all over again soon thereafter for a
new 3.7-1 package.  So don't hasten a release just for me, but some idea
of its likely timing could be useful.

Thanks,

Jonathan