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From: | Graham Percival |
Subject: | Re: compiling |
Date: | Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:18:08 -0700 |
User-agent: | Icedove 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070607) |
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
I feel appropriately embarrassed -- I noticed a "2006" in the date of a bugreport on guile-1.8, and jumped to conclusions. The actual date was 28 Dec 2006, so that's half a year. (wishlist request for the rational fractions patch)Yeah. For example, Debian _still_ doesn't have guile-1.8.2 or higher. Not even in the unstable branch! I think this was released about a yearago. :(Actually 1.8.2 was released 2007-07-16
More importantly, 1.8.2 was packaged on 25 Aug 2007! I think I was looking for guile two weeks ago, so I missed it barely.
Yes, there are distributions with slow bugfix patches; and staffing needs are short everywhere. I really didn't mean to sound ungrateful in my previous email; I'm very aware that most packagers are volunteers, and I'm very appreciative of their work.With good reason, I think -- once we find a bug in the underlying libraries, it doesn't make sense to try to work around that bug in our own code. But that does mean that we have to wait a year (or more) before those underlying projects release new versions and get packaged for major distributions.Are there really distributions that don't apply patches for bugfixes to their packages (especially if they are already accepted upstream)? If it takes more than a year it is probably a sign that certain packages aren't maintained (much) due to staffing needs going unfulfilled.
Cheers, - Graham
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