On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 10:30:51PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, > > Yes. Really. > > After 34 months, a new release of quilt is finally available. I skipped > 0.49 due to the long delay, so the new release is numbered 0.50.
YEAH!!!! Thanks for getting this out, as someone who relies on this tool every day, I really appreciate all of the work everyone has done on it. thanks so much. greg k-h > > I won't go describing the changes in this release. There are way too > many for me to remember, and I simply don't have the time to dig through > the changelog. So... there are new features, and bug fixes. That's it. > > What I can say for sure is that it won't take 34 more months before the > next release. What I would like to see happen now is distribution > packagers pick this new release and rebase their package on it. Then do > some testing and report any problem or bug. The next release of quilt > will probably mainly consist of these bug fixes. > > 0.50 will not be the best release of quilt ever, I'm sure. With such a > long time without a release, odds are that testing of the development > version of quilt has been scarce. We'll only hear about the problems > once it gets widely deployed. > > One known problem is the translations. I've updated the French > translation before releasing 0.50, and also fixed the easiest fuzziness > in the German translation, but all of German, Japanese and Russian > translations would need some love from native speakers. It would be > great to have this in 0.51. > > Then 0.52 could be the long awaited migration to bash-based backup- > files, making quilt a noarch package. And 0.53 and later could focused > on merging back the local changes every distribution must have been > carrying for 2 years. > > Thanks, > -- > Jean Delvare > Suse L3 > > _______________________________________________ > Quilt-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
