Re: new release?

2022-02-07 Thread Sam James
On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 12:21:34 -0600 (CST) Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 6 Feb 2022, Daniel Herring wrote: > > > > In my opinion, frequent slow releases are way better than rare fast > > releases. > > That may be true for some software, but libtool has a really good > test suite so if tests

Re: new release?

2022-02-07 Thread Sam James
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 12:14:29 -0600 Alex Ameen wrote: > Thanks for all of the advice y'all. > > I'm going to get this release together as soon as possible and resolve > issues from there. > > I agree that paralysis set in a bit as a result of me trying to test > a bit overboard on my own ( lots

Re: New libtool maintainer

2022-02-07 Thread Ozkan Sezer
On 2/8/22, Julien ÉLIE wrote: > Hi Alex, > >> Feel free to reach out if you have pending patches/issues you want to >> "bump", ideas for improvements, general advice for a new GNU maintainer >> - and above all if you'd like to lend a hand toward getting `libtool' up >> and running again. > > Many

Re: New libtool maintainer

2022-02-07 Thread Julien ÉLIE
Hi Alex, Feel free to reach out if you have pending patches/issues you want to "bump", ideas for improvements, general advice for a new GNU maintainer - and above all if you'd like to lend a hand toward getting `libtool' up and running again. Many thanks for your work on Libtool! I believe

Re: new release?

2022-02-07 Thread Daniel Herring
No worries. Glad someone is carrying the project forward. Next time, consider using the "slow process" as "outsourced QA testing". It might be easier and faster. :) -- Daniel On Mon, 7 Feb 2022, Alex Ameen wrote: Thanks for all of the advice y'all. I'm going to get this release together

Re: new release?

2022-02-07 Thread Alex Ameen
Thanks for all of the advice y'all. I'm going to get this release together as soon as possible and resolve issues from there. I agree that paralysis set in a bit as a result of me trying to test a bit overboard on my own ( lots of VMs ). I appreciate the reality check :) On Mon, Feb 7, 2022,

Re: .gitmodules security

2022-02-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-02-07 05:43:11 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 07 Feb 2022 09:32, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > what is done on Debian (where the libtool uses the version from the > > gnulib package, so that it is interesting to know the behavior with > > the current gnulib). > > eh ? packages that

Re: new release?

2022-02-07 Thread Frederic Berat
On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 8:02 PM Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On 06 Feb 2022 11:56, Daniel Herring wrote: > > FWIW, libtool is a particularly difficult code base to release. Long > > history, many users, multi-platform, ... > > > > I would personally recommend the "slow" process unless you are

Re: .gitmodules security

2022-02-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 07 Feb 2022 09:32, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > what is done on Debian (where the libtool uses the version from the > gnulib package, so that it is interesting to know the behavior with > the current gnulib). eh ? packages that leverage gnulib don't get libtool from gnulib. they get it from

Re: .gitmodules security

2022-02-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-02-06 19:49:36 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > the repository is pinned to a specific commit as you can see online: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/log/gnulib > > so the normal git clone + submodule sync requires a sha1 collision. > > if someone were to manually update the