On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 02:40, Charles Wilson wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 11:18, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > >>http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libt/libtool/libtool_1.4.3-10.diff.gz > >>etc. > >> > > > > As the Debian Libtool package maintainer, I'd like to know whether it > > would be possible to gain CVS commit access to the libtool repository. > > > > Not necessarily to merge in our (fairly hefty, now) patch, but to at > > least help with some of the work. > > NOTE: the following is not authoritative; it's just my (informed?) > opinion... > > I'd guess not. It appears that debian's changes are all on the 1.4.3 > branch, which is permanently and irrevocably dead. We really really > really don't want to provide anybody with more excuses to stay on 1.4.3. > Yeah, the current libtool package is 1.4 -- unfortunately there are still a huge number of software packages out there still using autoconf 2.13 for whom libtool 1.5 isn't useable until they get their collective arses in gear and update to 2.5x
> If John Q. Developer wants new-and-improved libtool functionality, > then we want JQD to use 1.5.x. > Indeed, I've already packaged libtool 1.5 for Debian. The only reason it's not in the archive right now is cowardice. The Debian libtool package will be 1.5 within a month or so though. I'll still be maintaining the 1.4 branch (in a libtool1.4 package) out of need, there's too much that can't updated to 1.5 yet. Scott -- Who welcomes the death of 1.4.x :-)
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