On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 19:51 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Hi fellows, > > the Pan newsreader - http://pan.rebelbase.com/ - was so far maintained > by mpeters and is now since 2006-09-19 on the list of orphaned packages > - http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrphanedPackages. To not > loose this piece of software from the pool I would jump into it, if > nobody else is interested. > > Pan in the devel branch of CVS is version 0.99, which means it is from > the upstream side beta / complete rewrite tree, dated May 28, 2006. FE5 > and FE4 both ship the stable upstream release 0.14.2.91, not touched in > upstream since Jan 24, 2004. > From my point of view I can not judge whether the Pan upstream > development will fix bugs and extend functionality to release the 1.0 > within the next 6 weeks. Though the Pan site states for the latest beta > release from August 18, 2006: > > "Compared to previous weeks, this is a very incremental relase. 1.0 is > just around the corner..." > > Question: > What should be done? There are 2 possible routes I see: > a) Keeping the beta / development upstream and doing a pan FE update > rebuild from 0.99 -> 0.113. > b) Increasing the epoch to get the same stable release version of FE5 > and FE4 into devel / soon to be released FE6. > > This is a call for votes - especially by those of you using Pan. > > Regards > > Alexander > > I use pan quite a bit and the 0.99 version is much better than the old one as far as memory consumption is concerned. I've not really encountered any bugs but I only use it for reading. I would hope that for at least fc6, you use the 0.99 branch. I've rebuilt your rpm for FC5 and it seems to work fine there as well. tjb -- ======================================================================= | Thomas Baker email: tjb@xxxxxxx | | Systems Programmer | | Research Computing Center voice: (603) 862-4490 | | University of New Hampshire fax: (603) 862-1761 | | 332 Morse Hall | | Durham, NH 03824 USA http://wintermute.sr.unh.edu/~tjb | ======================================================================= -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
