Re: [Quilt-dev] Quilt 0.50 released

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 10:30:51PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Yes. Really.
> 
> After 34 months, a new release of quilt is finally available. I skipped 
> 0.49 due to the long delay, so the new release is numbered 0.50.

YEAH!!!!

Thanks for getting this out, as someone who relies on this tool every
day, I really appreciate all of the work everyone has done on it.

thanks so much.

greg k-h

> 
> I won't go describing the changes in this release. There are way too 
> many for me to remember, and I simply don't have the time to dig through 
> the changelog. So... there are new features, and bug fixes. That's it.
> 
> What I can say for sure is that it won't take 34 more months before the 
> next release. What I would like to see happen now is distribution 
> packagers pick this new release and rebase their package on it. Then do 
> some testing and report any problem or bug. The next release of quilt 
> will probably mainly consist of these bug fixes.
> 
> 0.50 will not be the best release of quilt ever, I'm sure. With such a 
> long time without a release, odds are that testing of the development 
> version of quilt has been scarce. We'll only hear about the problems 
> once it gets widely deployed.
> 
> One known problem is the translations. I've updated the French 
> translation before releasing 0.50, and also fixed the easiest fuzziness 
> in the German translation, but all of German, Japanese and Russian 
> translations would need some love from native speakers. It would be 
> great to have this in 0.51.
> 
> Then 0.52 could be the long awaited migration to bash-based backup-
> files, making quilt a noarch package. And 0.53 and later could focused 
> on merging back the local changes every distribution must have been 
> carrying for 2 years.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Jean Delvare
> Suse L3
> 
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