Re: ANN: GNUstep GUI 0.26.1

[David Chisnall]

On 2 Jan 2018, at 07:13, Yavor Doganov <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> В Mon, 01 Jan 2018 23:07:11 +0000, Ivan Vučica написа:
> 
>> Cutting no-changes releases of back is not fun. Do we need to do it?
>> Will -gui reject -back with mismatching minor version?
> 
> Debian's current packaging requires full match between the GUI/Back
> versions, but that's easy to change (I think).  We made it that way
> very long time ago because we were told [1] that there were always
> going to be releases in sync as it's basically the same thing.  We
> were told it was a good thing -gui to depend on the very same version
> of -back in order to eliminate eventual incompatibilities.

Is there a good reason why we release -back as a separate package?  As far as I 
know, neither -gui nor -back is useable without the other.  Having them as 
separate releases doesn’t seem to help anyone.

David