Re: Is libtool being maintained at all?

[Scott James Remnant]

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 02:40, Charles Wilson wrote:

> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 11:18, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> 
>
>>http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libt/libtool/libtool_1.4.3-10.diff.gz
> >>etc.
> >>
> > 
> > As the Debian Libtool package maintainer, I'd like to know whether
it
> > would be possible to gain CVS commit access to the libtool
repository.
> > 
> > Not necessarily to merge in our (fairly hefty, now) patch, but to at
> > least help with some of the work.
> 
> NOTE: the following is not authoritative; it's just my (informed?) 
> opinion...
> 
> I'd guess not.  It appears that debian's changes are all on the 1.4.3 
> branch, which is permanently and irrevocably dead.  We really really 
> really don't want to provide anybody with more excuses to stay on
1.4.3.
> 
Yeah, the current libtool package is 1.4 -- unfortunately there are
still a huge number of software packages out there still using autoconf
2.13 for whom libtool 1.5 isn't useable until they get their collective
arses in gear and update to 2.5x

>   If John Q. Developer wants new-and-improved libtool functionality, 
> then we want JQD to use 1.5.x.
> 
Indeed, I've already packaged libtool 1.5 for Debian.  The only reason
it's not in the archive right now is cowardice.  The Debian libtool
package will be 1.5 within a month or so though.

I'll still be maintaining the 1.4 branch (in a libtool1.4 package) out
of need, there's too much that can't updated to 1.5 yet.

Scott
-- 
Who welcomes the death of 1.4.x :-)

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