Re: Bug#213018: please package autoconf 2.57d
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:53:38PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> [ CCing debian-qa ]
If the maintainer doesn't want to package it, so be it. I don't see why
-qa needs to be dragged into this.
> 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.
Now is not the time to be experimenting. Two-and-a-bit months before the
scheduled sarge release, now is the time to work on stabilizing the
distribution.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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