On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:20:24PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > On 2/5/10, Bob Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Tom Russo wrote: > > > >> Because the Ubuntu repositories routinely stick at old versions. As I > >> understand it, the package maintainer is neither an Xastir user nor a > >> subscriber to any Xastir list. In fact, I thought I read recently > >> that the > >> package maintainer was no longer actively maintaining it, and they > >> were > >> looking for a new one. > >> > >> If you want point-and-click installation, you are at the mercy of > >> the binary > >> maintainer. If you want current code, you need to roll your own. > >> > >> I believe the last time I checked, it was still 1.9.4. We're on > >> 1.9.8 now. > >> It is possible that they are at 1.9.6 -- if so, they bumped it > >> shortly before > >> the 1.9.8 release. > > > > The version of Xastir in the latest (9.10) Ubuntu is actually a > > recompilation of the version contained in the Debian testing > > repository (the released version of Debian has 1.9.2). This is the > > case for many of the Ubuntu packages. If 1.9.8 gets into Debian > > testing soon, it might make it into the next release of Ubuntu (10.4 > > in April). > > Based on user feedback, the Xastir binary package in Ubuntu 9.10 > appears to be a very functional version. That hasn't been the case > with the binaries provided with 2 or 3 Ubuntu versions prior to 9.10, > and the same problems encountered by users of earlier Ubuntu versions > have been seen in other Debian based distributions like Mepis.
And oddly, 1.9.4 had a serious bug related to server ports --- a pointer was getting zeroed when it shouldn't have been, before a pipe was done with it. I'm surprised it isn't biting anyone. Perhaps the folks that use this binary don't use Xastir server ports for anything. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. -- Ineffective daily affirmation _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
