I haven't been very regular at building packages lately. But perhaps if there were two of us working together we could do a better job. I bet life would be much better if we built the official release packages on an older system like etch too.
Probably true - Debian is not the most up-to-date flavour of Linux but it is fairly popular and it is very stable - and if it works on Etch it will probably be ok on most distros for dependencies. I also have an Etch system at home so there is another possiblity there - we bought a house last year so renovations take up most of my time.
Actually I think the GTK thing may need to be resolved on the Inkscape end. If we haven't moved as a project to start using 2.10 then this is an important bug to fix. I just don't remember what our plan was. I'd have to go digging through the list archives to find the final word.
Aaron Spike
That is interesting - I have looked and there are no backports I can see so it would be sources. I have the neccessary files and I will see how Etch handles the compiles on a virtual machine first. That will probably take a few days :-) I am sure Inkscape will be on GTK 2.10 before Debian upgrades again (Lenny has 2.10.13 already) so this will probably have to be looked at anyway if Debian users aren't to be perpetually 2-3 versions behind. (The current Etch .deb is 0.44-1-.1 so it HAS to be autopackages!)
Thanks for all your help,
Tony