Xara Xtreme GPL'ed

[Guido Heumann]

Matt Zimmerman schrieb:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:44:34PM +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>> On di, 2006-03-21 at 23:32 +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>>> On di, 2006-03-21 at 14:27 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>>>> There's no restriction on new packages in Dapper at present; if a
>>>> package is produced, I'm happy for it to go in.
>>> Hmm, I though featurefreeze was still going strong :) 
>> Xara requires wxWidgets 2.6.3-rc2 instead of 2.6.1 (which is in Ubuntu).
>> I'm not sure whether an RC of a library fits in a 3-year (desktop)
>> supported distro. 
> 
> I'm not particularly fussed about RC versions of libraries in universe as a
> rule, though it would depend on how many other packages use the library and
> whether someone is willing to regression-test them with the new version.

I just happened to read the announcement[1] from Joachim Breitner, a 
Debian Developer, who has build unofficial Xara packages for Debian with 
wxWidgets 2.6.1 (he mentions "some slider problems").

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/03/msg01086.html

Perhaps this is useful for someone interested in getting Xara into Dapper.

cheers,
Guido