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 <[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. 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
