[Bug 6472] [breezy] gtk-gnutella reports "*** RUNNING AN OLD VERSION ***"

[Stephan Hermann]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/6472

Comment:
Hey Reinhard,

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 16:00, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/6472
>
> Comment:
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:05:19PM -0000, Tor Harald Thorland wrote:
> > Heres the text from the GTK-Gnutella page:
> >
> > --snip--
> > What does "Outdated version, please upgrade" mean?
> > Versions of gtk-gnutella more than one year old are banned, since they
> > lack features that are important to the rapidly evolving gnet's health
> > and scalability. In addition, unstable versions are banned after 90 days.
> > --snip--
> >
> > So a beta version is about to expire 22 of January. Nothing to do with
> > it until they release a new version, unless you get a version from cvs.
>
> Thank you for your investigation. If I understand correctly, there
> isn't much we can do, but to wait for a new upstream version. If I read
> correctly, the 0.9.5 release has expired as well, so there is no
> working release at all at the moment. Is this right?
>
> I'm not feeling comfortable in uploading a random cvs snapshot. I
> consider this as the last resort.
>
> Please keep us updated on this bug.

If debian doesn't have a new version, and real upstream is not responding 
anymore, we shouldn't break UVF for a very questionable package like 
gtk-gnutella.

My POV :)

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