[Jean Delvare] > We may want to document the problem in quilt and state that quilt > requires diffstat >= 1.32 for proper "quilf refresh --diffstat" > operation. Maybe we could even have ./configure check for the version?
[Josh Boyer] > I'd rather not make quilt require the newer diffstat. The garbage may > be slightly annoying, but quilt doesn't really require the newest. > Plus, there are lots of users using 1.31 (anyone using Fedora Core 3), > and I'd rather not break quilt for them. Agreed, we shouldn't require a recent version. However, we could have ./configure emit a warning if an old version is found. A patch attempting to do that is attached (against quilt 0.40). Disclaimer: this is my very first attempt at hacking a configure script, so my code may be suboptimal. Comments are welcome, I am willing to learn ;) [Josh Boyer] > Let's just reject the patch for now and I'll work on getting the newer > diffstat into Fedora Core. Having quilt warn on older versions is likely to make distributions more willing to upgrade to newer versions, and this is one of the reasons why I think we should have it do so. Fedora is certainly not the only distribution coming with an old version of diffstat. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare
quilt-0.40-configure-diffstat-version.diff
Description: Binary data
_______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
