Re: [Quilt-dev] Call for 0.46

[Jean Delvare]

Hi all,

Quoting myself:
> Let's release quilt 0.46 soon. There are people out there interested in
> the new a-b-style patches feature. This is the only new feature since
> 0.45 as far as I can see, but there are also many bugfixes and
> documentation updates, so 0.46 is essentially a maintenance release.
> 
> A few problems still need to be solved:
> * A bug was reported in "make rpm", this needs to be investigated:
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/quilt-dev/2006-07/msg00000.html
>   Andreas?
> * The diffstat and rpmbuild wrappers don't make sense (as is being
>   discussed elsewhere on this list) and need to be replaced with
>   symbolic links. This one is for me.
> * Translations need to be updated. There are only 5 fuzzy translations,
>   it should be rather straightforward. I'll take care of the French
>   translation, I assume Andreas will take care of the German one. Yashi,
>   can you submit a patch for the Japanese translation?
> 
> Everyone is invited to test the current CVS version of quilt and report
> any problem. Greg, please test and confirm that the a-b-style patches
> implementation suits your needs.
> 
> The target release date is September 27th.

We're finally ready to release, with some delay. Once again I invite
everyone to test the current CVS version of quilt to make sure there is
no regression, and then we can release quilt 0.46, probably next week
i.e. around October 18th.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare