On 2015-12-18 James Youngman <j...@gnu.org> wrote: > I'm considering making a stable release (i.e. 4.6.0) of GNU findutils > in the next few days, essentially identical to the recent 4.5.15 > release, with a version number change.
> What are your thoughts on this? Clearly there are a number of open > bug reports on the bug tracker. However, many bug-fixes have occurred > across the 4.5.x series, and so perhaps the benefit of the bug fixes > in the proposed 4.6.0 release outweighs the downside of making a > stable release with known bugs. > What do you think? If you don't think we should make a stable > release without addressing one of the bugs in the bug tracker, would > you like to volunteer to work on the issue you identified? Hello, the status quo, with a very old stable release and a slowly moving unstable one clearly does not work. A number of Linux distros (e.g. Opensuse and Fedora) have already moved to 4.5.x. We at Debian are still at 4.4. I would consider the outdated gnulib in 4.5.15 a release-blocker, it fails with perl 5.22 and I guess the build-error on ppc64el https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=findutils&ver=4.5.15-1&arch=ppc64el is also gnulib related. I do not know whether 4.5.15 has less (severe) bugs than 4.4.2, I was not able to filter bugs applying only to 4.5.x on savannah? The three open blocker and important bugs are not 4.5.x specific. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
