Re: su, going, going, ...

[Jim Meyering]

Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 08:34:32AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>> Good to see, but....  It is my understanding that there is not a
>> released version of util-linux with su in it, and I do not see details
>> of a release on the horizon.
>
>  We usually release util-linux twice per year, the latest release
>  2.21 was in February, and I'd like to have release 2.22 in July.
>
>  If there will be a real problem with this schedule than we can
>  release util-linux 2.21.3 bugfix release with backported su(1).

Thanks, Karel.
That sounds perfect.
While coreutils' "Bug fixes" list is longer than I'd like,

    http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS

currently I see no pressing need to make a release,
so we should be comfortable releasing after util-linux-2.22.