[eboard-devel] One debian, two debians, Debian 3.0

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

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Daniel,

http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=268

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Deadline: base packages need to be free of RC bugs by July 21st.

If all goes well, the next phase will begin on
the 1st of August. If all goes
incredibly well, we'll release in November. Ha ha ha.
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What is an RC bug and, more important, does eboard have any ?
Should debian freeze with eboard in, I recommend it freezes with the
latest version, be it 0.3.x (development branch) or whatever is up on the
freeze date. Please keep an eye on the freeze date for eboard (whatever it
may be, I don't know what 'base packages' are in the Debian sense of the
term, neither whether eboard is one of them.

(at least 0.3.1 will pop up this week, I'm getting PGN code to comply with
the PGN description on wotsit.org, and already got a fix about clocks on
observing examined games)

Also, I just saw this:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/eboard.html

"WARNING: eboard is currently quite alpha, and so the usual caveat
downloadors apply: it might crash during games, between
games, after games, or upon startup; it might eat your porridge, sit in
your chairs, sleep in your bed, and make off with your
computer. You have been warned."

I'm working on the 'crash before, during and after games' part.
(Seriously: the only crash problems that seems to remain are: running
non-present engines or things-that-aren't-engines and failing to comply
with a eboard.conf that lists themes no longer present.)

And I suggest you change the description: GNU chess is already supported,
and chessd support doesn't seem to be coming any soon because the
discussions about the protocol have halted (they need to either finish the
protocol or the implementation before I can support it, and none are
getting done).

I'm not sure about the max length of the one-liner, but 'graphical chess
program' sounds like a program that plays chess (engine), 'graphical chess
board program' would sound better.

Still ranting *grin*, I consider eboard in beta stage, no longer alpha.

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Felipe Paulo Guazzi Bergo - Free Software Developer (be...@se...)
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