CVS: why still 1.11.5?
Andre Costa
acosta at ar.microlink.com.br
Mon Mar 8 18:29:07 UTC 2004
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:12:50 -0500 (EST)
"William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Andre Costa said:
> > On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 11:50:31 -0600
> > "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com> wrote:
> >
> >> At 11:22 3/8/2004, you wrote:
> >> >BTW: still waiting for the answer for the CVS question... ;)
> >>
> >> Don't know, but you might want to "rpm -qi cvs" on your computer,
> >then> "rpm -q --changelog cvs" and look for the package maintainer.
> >Send> him/her a nice email asking why a newer package hasn't been
> >released,> and see what you get back. :-)
> >
> > Nice tip, will do that too. I am affraid though that people personal
> > email might not get through, but it's definitely worth a try.
>
> I would also suggest being prepared when they reply "What feature is
> missing?". Upgrading just for the sake of having a newer version is
> just a PITA for a maintaner, but if a number of people want version
> foo because of feature bar, that carries more weight. As someone else
> pointed out, development has version 1.11.11, so it might be as easy
> as rebuilding the src.rpm.
Right, makes sense. I will get the devel SRPM and see what comes out of
it.
I don't have a specific demand for latest CVS, this was just curiosity
(increased by the huge changelog).
Best,
Andre
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Andre Oliveira da Costa
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