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

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Josh,

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:35:23 -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.
> 
> Are there any workarounds that could be done in quilt?

It would be quite intrusive, I don't think we want to do that, sorry.
The bug is in bash, it's well known and already fixed upstream, I
expect distributions shipping a broken version of bash to apply the fix
where it belongs, it's quite easy.

-- 
Jean Delvare