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, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
