[scribus] Littlecms

[John Culleton]

On Thursday 17 July 2008 04:37:06 am Julian Robbins wrote:
> > > I have been thinking about replacing 1.3.4-based scribus-ng
> > > with 1.3.5svn-based one for a while now. Though it might be too
> > > late to introduce this change into the main Debian archive I am
> > > getting more and more convinced that I should go ahead and do
> > > this in our upstream Scribus Archive. What would the users of
> > > my packages think of this? I welcome your suggestions.
> >
> > Not an Ubuntu user, but it makes more sense to have 1.3.5 than
> > 1.3.4. At least it would be something usable.
> >
> > Greg
>
> I agree with Greg. 1.3.4 really seemed to be a step too far (at the
> time) to do anything useful with. I'm not griping, it was a means
> to an end, and very necessary. 1.3.5SVN is more stable, and with so
> many ubuntu/debian users these days, you'll get less useless
> bugreports about 1.3.4 problems which have been fixed a long time
> ago.
>
> Also we keep seeing people on the list with problems with 1.3.4
> which is 9-12 months old ??. If going to use the bleeding edge, it
> might as well be the extreme bleeding edge, then at least feedback
> to the devs is timely and useful.
>
> Many thanks for your packaging efforts as usual.

Perhaps 1.3.4 should be deleted from the download sites or at least 
marked clearly as deprecated.  Certainly it should not be included in 
any repository.  It was just a prototype, not for production, and is 
not currently being upgraded or fixed AFAIK. All the effort is going 
into 1.3.3.x or 1.3.5 (someday to be 4.0?)

-- 
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