Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH 00/39] Reimplement backup-files in bash

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Andreas Gruenbacher <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thursday 15 September 2011 15:15:37 Jean Delvare wrote:
>> Hi Raphael,
>>
>> On Thursday 16 June 2011 10:26:47 am Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> > And it would be nice to have a new quilt release with this code.
>>
>> You're preaching the choir here. The lack of release is actually what
>> prevented me from committing my changes. It is a large and intrusive
>> change, no matter how much care I put in it and how much testing I gave
>> it. Unfortunately, with no release in 2.5 years, it's pretty clear that
>> most distributions are packing development repository snapshots and not
>> version 0.48. So many users are likely to receive my commits very
>> quickly. I'm not sure if we want this.
>
> I'm not sure if any distros would want to switch to a "released" version.

I'd switch Fedora to a newly released version.  We're still sitting at 0.48.

If 0.49 had Jean's changes to drop backup-files that would be even
better since I could finally make quilt a noarch package, but I can
see the reasoning for waiting on that until after a new release.

josh