Re: Bug#213018: please package autoconf 2.57d
[ CCing debian-qa ]
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:30:37PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> writes:
>
> > As you most certainly know, the autoconf team is going to release 2.58 very
> > soon, and they have rolled out a release candidate known as 2.57d so that
> > it is properly tested before becoming 2.58.
>
> I don't package prereleases.
Why not? Woody+1 will release with autoconf 2.58. If 2.57d happens
to be broken and breaks hundreds of packages, then you'd rather want to
discover that before it becomes 2.58.
> If you want 2.57d, then you can
> package it for experimental.
experimental doesn't help here.
--
Robert Millan
"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."
-- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
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