Gabriel,
Times are changing. Many upstream maintainers don't do releases any more
and instead rely on CI to maintain a good quality level. Unfortunately,
this change often goes without announcement and unnoticed by package
maintainers, leading to the situation you describe.
In cases like this, it might be best to check with upstream and ask them
about their intentions. It may be that you'll never see a release tag
again. Then, it would be best to just take the most up-to-date git version.
Regarding my hangs: It is because something's broken in my NIS
(yellow-pages) setup (haven't fully analyzed yet). It turns out that,
when doing tab completion, your patch 00-fix_quote_readline_by_ref.patch
tries to match against ~*, which incurs a NIS look-up and that blocks.
The upstream version doesn't do that and it seems like the patch has
never been applied.
Are you sure it is necessary?
If no: can it be removed?
If yes: has it been reported upstream and what was the response?
Best wishes,
-richy.
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Richard B. Kreckel
<https://in.terlu.de/~kreckel/>
