Comment 18 for bug 105428

Hello David,

I am the owner of the ITP and I had been trying to add Code::Blocks to
Debian repositories.
I had created the packages more than once but always having to change
something to fulfill mentor's demands. When everything was looking like it
would be finally solved then Code::Blocks team started to use the new
updated version of wxWidgets 2.8 which is not in the repositories. I had
tried to ask the maintainer of the previous versions for a new version but
he told me he wasn't in accordance that the new version was really stable
and that he was not intending to add it to the repositories and that he
thought it was better to wait for a version 3.0 of wxWidgets which was
planned to be released on last January.
After talking to a debian developer friend of mine for councils he argued to
me that it is not a good policy to build the uptodate version of wxWidgets
passing over the previous maintainer opinions and that he thought it would
be a good idea to wait for him to update wxWidgets before packaging
Code::Blocks again.
Afterwards I realized that:

   - the point-of-view of wxWidgets maintainer should be respected;
   - Code::Blocks is not really a stable software for now although I am
   using it anyway;
   - I do not intend to fork their work to make Code::Blocks compatible
   to the previous version wxWidgets 2.6;
   - I had been talking to the Code::Blocks creator and he thinks it will
   be better to package it after the release of 1.0 stable version.

Then I was forced to wait for this situation to be cleared up into any
direction before continuing the work and to accept that Debian distro really
gets stuck some times if some dependecies could not be satisfied by
community or even by one's point-of-view.
I have uploaded a lot of packages to debian mentors and the
first-before-last package is still available there so if you want you can
see it by yourself.
If you would like, I can forward all my communications to all of the people
involved.

Best regards,
Erick Mattos.

2008/2/17, David Paleino <email address hidden>:
>
> Hi,
> is there any news on this package? I'd like to takeover the ITP, if there
> are
> no objections.
>
> Kindly,
> David
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