On 2015/10/27 09:41, J. Scott Heppler wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2015: 15:55, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >On 2015/10/25 09:43, J. Scott Heppler wrote: > >>The abook maintainers have provided a new release tarball. Due to > >>some issues at the maintainers end, the release is located here: > >>http://abook.sourceforge.net/devel/abook-0.6.1.tar.gz > > > >That's marked as a devel version rather than a stable release. I wonder > >if they have deliberately not included the generated configure scripts in > >an attempt to reduce the number of non-developers using it? > > > > The original SourceForge project was setup by Jaakko Heinonen who > retains the permissions for releases uploads. All of the recent code > commits have been done by Raphaël Droz (does not have permission for > release uploads). Both the Debian Maintainer and I have asked for the > upload and ...devel/ is the best that can be done on their end. > > > -- > J. Scott Heppler >
I'm not referring so much to the path (although there is that), more the fact that it's in a section which says "Latest development version" whereas 0.6.0pre2 (also in the devel/ path) is in a "Latest stable versions" section. And that one *does* come with a generated configure script.
