Re: Is libtool being maintained at all?

[Nicholas Wourms]

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. 
>  If John Q. Developer wants new-and-improved libtool functionality, then 
> we want JQD to use 1.5.x.

Try telling that to the gcc people...  They are still using some early 
prerelease of 1.4a for crying out loud!

Cheers,
Nicholas