Hi Santiago, On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 08:29:31PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > The Debian changelog does not say much:
> tre (0.7.5-1) unstable; urgency=low > * New upstream release. See the NEWS file for details. > * Added Milan Zamazal to the Uploaders field, as backup maintainer. > -- Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:06:52 +0100 > but the NEWS file does: > - Bug fixes: > - agrep now correctly returns exit code 1 when no matches found. > - Fixed regexp parser bug affecting big-endian 64 bit > architectures (sparc, ppc). The bug caused all regexps to match > an empty string and nothing else. > - Fixed agrep memory usage problems when reading from pipes. > Regarding the second item: I'm not sure about 64-bit powerpc, but at > least sparc is one of our fully supported architectures, and a > "does not work at all" bug seems to be the kind of bug we usually > don't want to see in a stable release. True, but the Debian sparc port is not a 64-bit architecture; it's a 32-bit userspace running on predominantly 64-bit hardware. So there doesn't seem to be anything here that justifies a freeze exception (and the debdiff for this update is quite unwieldly). Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
