On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:19:27AM +0100, Klaus Singvogel wrote:
> Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > Hi folks (SUSE packagers),
> > 
> > openSUSE 11.0 Beta1 is coming closer and now is a good time
> > to do version updates for your packages.
> > 
> > The following is a database dump/compare from the freshmeat/sf/gnome/kde
> > scrapers I run.
> > 
> > Always take the result with grain of salt, upgrade is still at your
> > discretion.
> > 
> > Ciao, Marcus
> [...]
> > 
> > kssingvo                cups            1.3.4      1.3.5
> 
> Version 1.3.5 was already submitted to STABLE when I received your
> mail (2-3 days ago), but the checkin was delayed.
> 
> > kssingvo                html2text       1.3.2a     1.6.1
> 
> The first is the still actual version of the C program, the later is
> the version of the PHP script. Two different programs with the same
> name. Please distinguish here.
> 
> > kssingvo                lynx            2.8.6      2.8.7dev.7
> 
> The later is the development tree, similar to the development tree of
> the kernel. Due to robustness reasons I think we should not provide
> such a version.
> 
> > kssingvo                squid           2.6.STABLE 2.6.STABLE
> 
> Very funny. :-(

My report probably cut off the rest of the version ;)

> Still we are at latest version now again. Submitted latest version
> yesterday, but checkin isn't done yet.
> 
> 
> I think, if you blame on people in the public (!) about being late at
> their work, and as a result leaving credits on them, I expect that you
> check out your database double, before doing so. Sorry, but it leaves
> always a bad taste in my opinion, if you do it in such a denouncing
> way. A personal e-mail might should do better in future. Thanks for
> understanding.

Since there is no internal packagers list anymore, I have no other
choice than to post it here.

And it by no means is a "blame" list, I hopefully clearly stated
that my scripts use *heuristics*

Ciao, Marcus
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