Re: [Quilt-dev] Quilt 0.46 has been released!

[Josh Boyer]

On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 13:48 +1000, John Vandenberg wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> 
> On 10/22/06, Josh Boyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 08:35 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 18:48 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Quilt 0.46 is now available for download from Savannah:
> > > > http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/quilt/
> > > >
> > > > This release mainly adds support for a/b-style patches. There are also
> > > > a few minor cleanups and bugfixes, but nothing really worth detailing.
> > >
> > > Ok, so this update won't work on FC-5 because of the configure check for
> > > a bash quoting issue.  Unfortunately, that's the most current release of
> > > Fedora[1].  I'll file a bug against bash in FC-5, but there are no
> > > guarantees it'll get fixed.
> >
> > FYI:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211739
> 
> The latest FC5 package is bash-3.1-6.2; it contains the upstream
> patches up to bash31-007, which means it's missing upstream patches
> 008 - 017.  The last three package updates are quite old:
> 
> * Fri Feb 10 2006 Jesse Keating <address@hidden> - 3.1-6.2
> - bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)
> * Tue Feb 07 2006 Jesse Keating <address@hidden> - 3.1-6.1
> - rebuilt for new gcc4.1 snapshot and glibc changes
> * Sun Feb  5 2006 Tim Waugh <address@hidden> 3.1-6
> - Patchlevel 7.

Yes, I know all this.  That's why I filed the bug :)

> Afaics from reviewing the list archive, the only reported problem so
> far is in the 'mail' command:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/quilt-dev/2006-05/msg00011.html
> 
> Could you confirm that only mail is busted by manually working around
> the configure.in check, and then executing the following:
> 
> $ rm test/.*.ok
> $ touch test/.mail.ok
> $ make check
> 
> If there is only the one problem in mail, the mail.in syntax could be
> revised to avoid this bug.

Ok, I'll try and verify that tomorrow.  Thanks for the tips, and I'll
let you know.

josh