12 March 2006

I uploaded last night Mono 1.1.9.1, Gtk# 2.3.91, MonoDoc 1.1.9 and mono-tools 1.1.9 to Debian/Unstable and debian.meebey.net. mono-tools for Debian/Unstable is now in the NEW queue though, so it will take some days before it hits the Debian archive. Gnunit and the famous monodoc-browser package is part of mono-tools now.
Warning about Gtk# 2.3.91, it breaks ABI means all Gtk# 2 applications must be recompiled against Gtk# 2.3.91 in order to work again, for example f-spot and muine. MonoDevelop 0.7 is already recompiled and uploaded too, f-spot and muine will follow tonight. The package dependencies will force a removal of f-spot and muine when Gtk# 2 will be upgraded, so nothing will break silently. Thanks to Eduard Bloch (aka Zomb) and Ingo Saitz (aka Salz) for sponsoring the uploads of the packages to the Debian archive.

The invasion of the Mono 1.1 suite has reached the archive of Debian/Unstable!
All packages were accepted within minutes (because of the preparation in Debian/Experimental and the good work of the ftp-master).
Here the full list of uploaded source packages with version:
cli-common (0.1.3.0), mono (1.1.6-4), monodoc (1.0.6-3), libgdiplus (1.1.7-2), gtk-sharp (1.0.8-2), gtk-sharp2-unstable (1.9.5-1), gecko-sharp (0.6-3), gecko-sharp2 (0.10-2), gtksourceview-sharp (0.5-6), gtksourceview-sharp2 (0.10-1) and last but not least monodevelop (0.7-1) The mission of the master Debian Mono Plan is almost completed with this step.
The Debian CLI Policy draft is now in work and an announce to all maintainers of Mono based applications will follow soon. The new packages use a different layout and allows easier packaging for maintainers. The existing packages should be migrated (if you have such package please visit #debian-mono on freenode or/and read/comment the new CLI policy draft), the main rules are already known but not written down yet (a discussion on #debian-mono is desired). When CLI policy draft is finished and all current packages follow those, it's ready for going in Debian/Etch (Sarge must be released before that of course).
At that time we will work on backports for Debian/Sarge and provide them via the official Mono project page. I have to send some special thanks to the Debian Developer who allows that all my work is actually hitting Debian (because I am not an official Debian Developer yet), it's the man called Ingo Saitz (aka Salz) who is sponsoring all my uploads to debian and pointing me sometimes to issues he may see. Thank you Ingo for all work you did to make this possible! [/Academy Awards speech]