Nick Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It looks like gdbm is not very well maintained. Here is what I found while 
> searching for a 1.8 debian package...

  OK...
 
> gdbm (1.7.3-27) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * No 1.8 yet because a) the soname has changed, making packaging it less
>     trivial, b) the upstream changes are not hugely important and c) 1.8
>     appears after 5 years of upstream inactivity and has since been
>     followed by another 18 months of upstream inactivity despite some
>     trivial and annoying build bugs in 1.8 which must hit almost everyone
>     who tries to build it from source.  

  And people wonder why I don't like a lot of the GNU packages.  The
FSF is rabid about GNU software, and GPL'd software in general.

  Yet they would rather ship garbage for *years* than accept patches
from people who aren't buddy-buddy with RMS.

  <sigh>

  OK, the CVS snapshot from tonight should have 'configure' fixed for
the counter module.

  Alan DeKok.


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