Max Horn wrote: > > [...] > > >automake-1.4-p5-2: Needed for building some packages. Only exists in > >stable, not in unstable, although this violates fink policy. > > Nonsense! This is the case for many packages - newer version exists > in unstable than in stable in many cases, that's not a violation of > our policy but rather quite normal.
You are right, of course, in the strict literal sense. In the sense of functionality, automake-1.4-p5 is rather different from the later versions (as it turns out, so is automake-1.5-1). So it feels rather like a different package than just an old version of the same package as versions 1.5-1 and 1.6-1. If unstable is meant to be a superset of stable, it would be good to have these older versions there, too. To continue this thought (proposal, rant?): I sometimes have the feeling that cvs committers are a little too trigger-happy, in that they kill the old version immediately when submitting a new one. It would be useful sometimes to be able to go back to the preceding version more easily. I don't mean to suggest to keep a lot of old cruft in the active cvs tree, but maybe just the second-to-latest version could be kept? And in stable, could the versions from the latest release also be kept in the active cvs tree? When trying to give advice, this would be useful. -- Martin _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
