Re: inetutils-1.9.4.90 released [alpha]

[Simon Josefsson]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

>    Hi!  Please test this as if it were the final 1.9.5 and report any
>    issues.  It would be nice to go over the NEWS entries to make sure they
>    reflect all noteworthy changes since 1.9.4.  I am not aware of anything
>    else that has to be done before a 1.9.5 release.  Please don't start to
>    make major changes now, I think releasing 1.9.5 has priority over almost
>    anything.
>
> First of all, thank you Simon!
>
> So I'm not goint to put sticks into wheels for people pushing the bike
> -- I think it is a fine plan to not do any major changes (I'm
> ambivalent on the topic).

If anyone has major changes planned, please feel free to push them to a
branch!

I think we can review things in parallel while trying to get the release
out, if there is anything to look at.

> Mats-Erik, do you see any issues at this point?
>
> Could you give me a few days to go over things?

Certainly!

>    Building on Cygwin and Mingw does not work, but I think we can
>    document that as known problems, and invite people to send fixes
>    for those platforms if they care.  1.9.4 doesn't work on those
>    platforms either, as far as I know.
>
> Has it ever worked?

I don't know -- maybe not, so I don't think it is a priority.

>    This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
>      Autoconf 2.69
>
> Autoconf 2.70? Or are there fixes needed?

I'll install autoconf 2.70 locally.  That list was missing several tools
so I'll add them too, in case the versions makes a difference.

/Simon

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