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Quoth the Neil Bothwick |
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> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:53:27 -0700, Darren Kirby wrote: |
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> > > 0.8 is the latest stable version. Why do you think, that a different |
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> > > version should be offered, when you "emerge dir2ogg"? |
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> > Well, I'm the upstream author, and _I_ think there should be different |
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> > (ie: newer) version offered. Good enough? |
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> Sort of. Their is a newer version available in portage, but the ebuild has |
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> not been marked stable yet. however, the latest stable is 0.9.2 and I see |
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> you released 0.9.3 in July, so the ebuilds are definitely lagging behind. |
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> When the package has not changed in terms of build process and |
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> dependencies, you can normally make a copy of the ebuild with the new |
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> version number, digest it and then emerge it. As the author and a Gentoo |
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> user, why not make an ebuild available on your web page and post it too |
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> Bugzilla, then the package maintainer may pick it up and put it in portage |
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I did! Back on September 12th: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147360 |
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I don't know if it is overworked devs, lost in the shuffle, or what, but I've |
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done all I can. I am not going to harass the devs about it... |
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-d |
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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org |
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"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." |
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- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 |
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