On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:33:32AM +0000, Ben Crowell wrote:
I think the debian package is also lagging?
I'd say on the contrary that the Debian package is the best package we have. 0.40 was in Debian unstable almost as soon as 0.40 was released, as the Debian maintainer (Wolfi) had been following the prereleases.
Inkscape 0.40 still hasn't reached the `testing' distribution. Originally this was because Inkscape until very recently had a compilation bug on mips (global offset table too large; the fix, provided by a Debian person, was to pass -xgot to the assembler).
Since then a new `grave' bug has been filed against inkscape (doesn't work with the newest version of Window Maker), though the indications so far are that that's a bug with wmaker rather than inkscape, so maybe inkscape 0.40 will be able to enter testing within the next two weeks.
pjrm.