Thomas Hood wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > But I think you are really jumping the gun here. > > A new coreutils has not yet been released. > > That is not correct. coreutils 5.3.0 has been out for eight months.
You stated coreutils-5.90 in your wishlist. You did not mention anything about coreutils-5.3.0 so mentioning it now would be a different topic. The "new coreutils" in my statement referred to your request to package "coreutils test release 5.90". > coreutils 5.90 was released yesterday. > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/ > In the time you took to send your message you could have checked. Actually, coreutils 5.90 became available between the time that I started typing in my reply and the time that I actually hit send on the message a couple of hours later. At the time I started there was only Jim's advisory message that one was coming in the future. I admit that my message and the release message overlapped between composition and delivery. I need fewer distractions. > > An alpha version of a release candidate has not yet been released. So > > far all we are doing is *talking* about distributing an alpha release. > > It will take a little bit to stabilize. In my opinion this is way to > > early to file even a wishlist bug even for experimental. > > You are questioning the value of a wishlist item informing BTS readers > of a new release? As I plainly stated filing a wishlist for new packaging before it is available is too early. > You must have a lot of time on your hands. Actually I never have enough time. Perhaps you can spare some of yours? > I would advise you to do something better with it than quibbling (on > false grounds) about whether people should or should not file wishes > for things. There are no lies there. It pains me greatly to have my character attacked such as you have done. I stated my case simply and plainly. > Since you do quibble, I will say that as a user and as a developer of > other Debian packages I want to begin testing some of the features > that have been added to coreutils since 5.2.1 was released. I think you must misunderstand me. Let me state my case differently that we might better understand each other. I believe that posting a wishlist for a new upstream release that is only being talked about but that is *not yet available* for packaging is too early. Your message was posted at "Thu Sep 29 11:21:15 UTC 2005". But the code you were asking to have packaged was not ready at that time. It was not ready until "Thu Sep 29 22:02:02 UTC 2005". If it had been ready then I am sure you would have referenced the actual release message in your wishlist instead of the coming soon one that you referenced. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-09/msg00232.html Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
