any news on 1.8 for debian?

any news on 1.8 for debian?

[Nic James Ferrier]

I've been waiting for a 1.8 debian package before starting work again
on my libxml2/libxslt binding.

Anybody know why it's taking so long to get a debian of 1.8 into etch
or sid?

Is anybody working on it?

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Re: any news on 1.8 for debian?

[Rob Browning]

Nic James Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> writes:

> I've been waiting for a 1.8 debian package before starting work
> again on my libxml2/libxslt binding.
>
> Anybody know why it's taking so long to get a debian of 1.8 into
> etch or sid?

The issue is that I was waiting on SLIB.  The current Debian Guile
(1.6) works fine with the recent versions of SLIB, but SLIB's
guile.init hasn't been updated for 1.8.  I've been talking with Aubrey
Jaffer about it, but we haven't come to any conclusion yet.  We've
been talking about changing the way SLIB is handled within Guile.

If I don't come up with a solution soon, I can just upload 1.8
packages without SLIB support.

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Re: any news on 1.8 for debian?

[John Steele Scott]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:39:42 -0700, Rob Browning wrote:
> The issue is that I was waiting on SLIB.  The current Debian Guile
> (1.6) works fine with the recent versions of SLIB, but SLIB's
> guile.init hasn't been updated for 1.8.  I've been talking with Aubrey
> Jaffer about it, but we haven't come to any conclusion yet.  We've
> been talking about changing the way SLIB is handled within Guile.
> 
> If I don't come up with a solution soon, I can just upload 1.8
> packages without SLIB support.

Perhaps you could upload it and hold it in unstable until you sort out the
SLIB issue? I'd like to install it on my Ubuntu system, but have been
waiting for a Debian source package to build from.

cheers,

John



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Re: any news on 1.8 for debian?

[Rob Browning]

John Steele Scott <toojays@toojays.net> writes:

> Perhaps you could upload it and hold it in unstable until you sort out the
> SLIB issue? I'd like to install it on my Ubuntu system, but have been
> waiting for a Debian source package to build from.

I don't think it'll be a problem.  I'll just coordinate the issue with
the Debian SLIB maintainer and guile-1.8 won't support SLIB until
Guile does upstream.

However, first I'm trying to resolve the popen.test issue being
discussed on guile-devel.

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