Bugzilla Bug 92995

The last stable x86 inkscape version is very old (0.37).
Please consider marking the latest 0.41-version stable.

media-gfx/inkscape-0.41 stable request 

- works fine overhere x86 for 1 months

What actions must be done to get Inkscape increased to 0.41?  Is there 
something I can do to help achieve this?  Are there problems that need to be 
resolved, or packaging that needs to be done? 
 
Inkscape 0.37 is ancient, and it's troubling that Gentoo is still using it, 
when other distros are at 0.40 and 0.41.  0.41 is *much* more stable than 0.37 
and has a number of better features. 
 
A couple months ago I worked on getting all of the Gentoo bugs listed against 
Inkscape resolved, in hopes that would pave the way for moving from 0.37 to 
0.41.  Unfortunately, it still is at 0.37 even so. 
 
I'm willing to put in some time if needed.  We're starting on preparations for 
the Inkscape 0.42 release, and I'd really like to get Gentoo up to at least 
0.41, so if there are bugs to be fixed, or packaging to be done, or whatever, 
I'd be happy to help. 
 
 

OK, we can push it into stable. Arch testers, please mark stable inkscape-0.41.

stable on ppc64. used 0.41 some weeks now.

Can't be keyworded stable as we only have media-gfx/pstoedit-3.40 keyworded
(~amd64), and can't stabilise on that until the maintainer arch does. I have
been using inkscape-0.41 for several weeks with no issues on amd64, but haven't
been using the plugins very much as yet.

The plug-ins are optional requirements, so if the user does not have pstoedit 
installed, inkscape will still function properly, just with fewer features.  
Specifically, Adobe Illustrator output, and Postscript output. 
 
While the functionality pstoedit provides is important to many users, it's 
only loosely coupled to Inkscape, and can be upgraded completely 
independently.  It's a run-time dependency detected by Inkscape on the fly 
rather than a link-time dependency.  If the lack of a stable pstoedit is 
hindering making Inkscape 0.41 stable, you could remove it as a dependency for 
Inkscape.  Then, if the user installs it independently, inkscape will pick it 
up.  Later, when pstoedit does stabilize, you can re-add it as a dependency. 
 

It looks like pstoedit 3.33 is stable - perhaps Inkscape could be made 
dependent on that version instead of 3.40? 

I think you misundertand the problem slightly. Only media-gfx/pstoedit-3.40 has 
the ~amd64 keyword. All previous versions are totally untested on amd64, and so 
could not be stabilised. Once the maintainer marks 3.40 stable, I can go ahead 
and mark that stable on amd64 as there are no bugs I know about. 

Gentoo policy is that all deps for a stable package must be stable, and 
packages should usually have been in ~amd64 (or whatever testing branch) for at 
least one month before being stabilised. Removing pstoedit as a dep would allow 
me to mark inkscape-0.41 stable, or stabilising pstoedit-3.40. 

Ah, I understand.  But for stabilizing inkscape x86, this should not be an 
issue? 

Totally unrelated - x86 and amd64 have different stable trees and their dep 
tree looks OK to stabilise inkscape. 

made a stable request (bug #95295) for pstoedit-3.40 ... ppc64 already
stablized
it :) ...

errr... there is a new patch in 0.41-r1 do you want use to mark that instead or
wait ?

OK, 0.40-r1 is better idea. Sorry for the mistake.

amd64 done

media-gfx/pstoedit-4.30 is gone from the mirrors and SRC_URI.
The homepage has a new URL but the new file has a different md5 & size...

0.40-r1 stable on sparc.
for 0.41* to go stable i need pstoedit and 30 days to pass by on ~sparc.

Marked ppc stable.

stable on ppc64 

The last missing dependency for x86 should have been bumped to stable by bug
#96400.

Can someone move Inkscape 0.41 to stable?  It's marked stable for 4 other   
archs, and bug 95205 that this was dependant was resolved a couple weeks ago. 

Version 0.41-r1 marked stable.
Thanks for your patience, I'll try to keep up a bit better next time ;)
Cheers,
Marc.