Re: Including sed 4.1.2 into sarge
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 04:48:39PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> I am the maintainer for GNU sed. As the Debian package maintainer Clint
> Adams may have already told this list, I have asked him to push sed
> 4.1.2 into Sarge. The reason for doing so is that 4.1.1 has a couple of
> particularly nasty bugs, and I would not be in favor of a Debian release
> with them; one of them is also spotted by the LSB internationalization
> tests.
>
> Given the long release cycle of Debian, I'd prefer that 4.0.9 were put
> in sarge rather than 4.1.1, since it has been in use for a while and
> only has a few well-known POSIX-compliancy problems, of secondary
> importance. Of course, 4.1.2 (already in sid) would be the best choice.
Thanks; I've given sed 4.1.2-1 an exception from the freeze.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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