Re: libtool release schedule [WAS: [PATCH] GNU/KNetBSD support]

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:05:43PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:22:42PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> >
> >>Gotta reinstate my shell account at the FSF,

I've just spoken with Jeff Bailey (from the admin team) on that. The issue
was on hold for a script that automated gpg-signed FTP uploads. Yesterday I
wrote such script and sent it to him. Expect to recover access soon!

> >>synchronize libltdl changes 
> >>I've made for m4, add a feature to diagnose version mismatch between 
> >>libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh, take advantage of aclocal-1.8's m4_include 
> >>feature -- this will
> >>reduce the distribution tarball size by 20-40% by my estimation.
> 
> Absolutely!  Pick one of the tasks I've mentioned and send us a patch that 
> implements it.

Uhm.. I don't feel clued enough with autotools for this. But perhaps some of
the hackers listening on "glibc-bsd-*" lists want to pop out and take one
of the tasks.

> I'd rather polish 1.6.  But if 1.6 is essentially done (i.e branched in CVS 
> and 1.5b released to alpha.gnu.org), I'd be prepared to roll a 1.5.1 
> release if we are simply waiting on automake 1.8.

What do you need for 1.5b? Automake 1.8 too?

> Unfortunately the full release process is a fairly time consuming process, 
> so I don't want to spend an evening rolling 1.5.1 if 1.6 is only a month 
> behind if I have other stuff to work on.   But I do take your point.

Is there anything else from the release process you can delegate me? I'm not
aware of the required tasks asides from the file upload itself.

For example if you want testing on exotic platforms, I can try branch-1-5
and/or HEAD on most of them for you. For CPUs I have access to Debian machines
and can test it on m68k, sparc[64], alpha, powerpc, arm, mips (l.e. and b.e.),
hppa, ia64, s390, sh and x86_64. For OSes I can confirm GNU/Hurd [1] and try
a few others.

[1] http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2003-09/msg00096.html

-- 
Robert Millan

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thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
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