Dear all,
The next version of Debian (labelled "Stretch") will be released in spring 2017. Like all Debian releases, it is expected to be maintained for 3 years, which means until 2020.
Given the tight release schedule, we must make very quickly (i.e. in the coming days) a decision about the status of the Dynare package in that release.
There are basically 3 options:
1. Ship Dynare 4.4.3 in Debian Stretch. Pros: this is the latest stable release, and Debian usually ships stable releases Cons: it is getting quite old
2. Ship a snapshot of Dynare Pros: fresh codebase Cons: hard to decide which git commit on which to base the package; possibly buggy
3. Drop the package (from the stable release, not necessarily from Debian sid/unstable) Pros: avoids shipping an old or a unstable codebase; makes it clear that the user must make its own decision Cons: less user-friendly
All 3 options are fine with me, but I think you are in a better position than me to decide. Please let me know what to do.
Best,