[ CCing debian-qa ] On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:30:37PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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)
