Re: M4 in SuSE 7.2

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:41:19PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> 
> > I recently upgraded my workstation to SuSE 7.2, and discovered that
> > they now ship m4-1.4o as /usr/bin/m4!  That is a vote of confidence if
> > ever I saw one...
> 
> Interesting. Am I allowed to put m4-1.4o in Debian?

Absolutely.  I have been using it for well over a year as my production
M4.  I wouldn't put it in stable just yet mind you...

> When is m4-1.5 going to be released? I have a number of bugs
> (see http://bugs.debian.org/m4) which would be fixed by 1.5.

Unforseen acts of God aside, before 2002 Q2.

> Thanks.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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