Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 05:39:35PM +0000, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> While we're on the subject of 'bash', should we be applying the patches >> in http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/ ? > > Is there a chance of convincing the bash people to release bash 4.2.1? > It seems absurd to off-load the work of applying 45 patches from the last > three years on the users.
Yeah, that’s annoying. Basically, these patches are the version control system of Bash (really!). So in my view, if the maintainer doesn’t publish a new version, then it means that users can live without these patches. I haven’t checked what the current patch set is about, though. Ludo’.
