Quoth the Neil Bothwick > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:53:27 -0700, Darren Kirby wrote: > > > 0.8 is the latest stable version. Why do you think, that a different > > > version should be offered, when you "emerge dir2ogg"? > > > > Well, I'm the upstream author, and _I_ think there should be different > > (ie: newer) version offered. Good enough? > > Sort of. Their is a newer version available in portage, but the ebuild has > not been marked stable yet. however, the latest stable is 0.9.2 and I see > you released 0.9.3 in July, so the ebuilds are definitely lagging behind. > > When the package has not changed in terms of build process and > dependencies, you can normally make a copy of the ebuild with the new > version number, digest it and then emerge it. As the author and a Gentoo > user, why not make an ebuild available on your web page and post it too > Bugzilla, then the package maintainer may pick it up and put it in portage
I did! Back on September 12th: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147360 I don't know if it is overworked devs, lost in the shuffle, or what, but I've done all I can. I am not going to harass the devs about it... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
