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and subject line Bug#439201: wdiff: Please upgrade 0.5 (it's from year 1994)
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Package: wdiff
Version: 0.5-17
Severity: normal
0.5 is no longer maintained, and it's from 1994. The current version
is in active development and available at
http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=wdiff
The developer[1] has announced that 0.5. is no longer supported and he
suggested to move to the CVS version where 0.6pre is.
[1] Denver Gingerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages wdiff depends on:
ii libc6 2.6.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.6+20070812-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
wdiff recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Package: wdiff
> Version: 0.5-17
> Severity: normal
>
> 0.5 is no longer maintained, and it's from 1994. The current version
> is in active development and available at
>
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=wdiff
>
> The developer[1] has announced that 0.5. is no longer supported and he
> suggested to move to the CVS version where 0.6pre is.
This does not change the general Debian policy that only stable, released
software should be uploaded for unstable. Sorry.
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