Re: Bug-fix release of GNU make

[Frank Heckenbach]

Paul Smith wrote:

> I'd like to make a bug-fix release of GNU make within the next couple of
> weeks, before a new set of potentially disruptive changes go in.  There
> have been some important fixes since 4.0 was released.
> 
> If you have particular bugs that you'd like to see addressed please
> email me the Savannah bug number (if your pet peeve is not in Savannah,
> consider this a hint :-)).  I can't promise to address them all for this
> bug-fix release; some of the outstanding bugs are quite difficult to
> resolve.
> 
> I hope to create a release candidate build next weekend or so.

Any news? In order to make it into Debian jessie, time is really
getting short. Of course, you may not care much about Debian, but
it's still a rather popular distro, and importantly, it's one of the
slowest, so if nothing happens, Debian stable will contain a
seriously broken (esp. WRT new features) make version for something
like 2 years.

I understand (from own experience) that you want to fix as much as
possible before a release, but in this particular case, would you
mind making a bug-fix release ASAP? You still can do a 4.2 with more
fixes a few weeks later (which may or may not get into jessie then).

Thanks,
Frank