Re: Alpha GNU software
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:29:07PM +0200, Andre Canis wrote:
> Is there a policy in Debian on packaging "alpha" GNU software?
> Officially (ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/README), distributing it is
> discouraged, but some GNU software seems to be released even less often
> than Debian distributions. ;-P
As Henrique says, it's up to the maintainer, and Debian maintainers will
often be in fairly close contact with upstream maintainers (particularly
in the case of GNU packages, many of which form quite core parts of the
distribution).
It's not unusual for the Debian maintainer to compromise by carefully
backporting necessary patches from alpha releases to the previous stable
release, especially if a release of Debian is coming up and a whole new
version would be too risky a change.
> I'd really like to have a newer version of fileutils in Debian (so I
> could apply the patches to support ACLs on Linux), but that package is
> stuck at 4.1.
I hear that this one is being worked on.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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