On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:06:34PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Tom Russo wrote: > > >Yes, this tiny window issue was fixed in CVS some time ago. The package > >maintainer might very well be waiting for a stable release before building > >the > >package again, and 1.8.5 is still only available in development snapshots. > > I was hoping that Feisty would have a recent version, without such an > immediatly-visible bug, even if it is trivially worked around.
1.8.4 is the most recent version for which there has been a stable release. I'm not surprised that the package maintainer doesn't maintain a package with the CVS version or a development snapshot --- that'd be too much of a headache. > Ubuntu is getting to be an extremely popular distribution, especially with > first-time Linux users, and apt-get and the multiverse repositories are > absolutely the easiest way for a novice to get xastir up and running. > Whatever we can do to make that first impression a positive one will be > well worth it. I agree, but it could be a real hassle for any package maintainer to keep a package with CVS-head or a development snapshot --- I believe the development snapshots happen at least once a month these days. I can easily believe that it's enough work just to keep up with stable releases, which are much less frequent. I don't know if the ubuntu package maintainer is on this list --- as far as I know it isn't one of the xastir developers. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
