Re: What is going on with releases, mailing lists?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

I think that autoconf 2.59 is available in a directory adjacent to the
one that contains the libtool 1.5 release. :-)

Bob

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I've seen an announcement in address@hidden that Automake
> 1.7.9 has been released with Autoconf 2.59.  I thought it was a typo
> because Autoconf 2.59 has never been announced in the same list.
>
> Indeed, I checked NEW in CVS Autoconf, it mentions the 2.59 release on the
> same day as Autoconf 2.58 - November 4, 2003.
>
> However, ftp.gnu.org has only version 2.58.  Debian unstable also uses
> version 2.58.  I decided to check the mailing list.  (I'm very sorry, but
> I had to disable mailing list traffic for some mailing lists I was
> subscribed to, including autoconf lists, because I could not participate
> in too many projects in the same time.)
>
> I don't normally trust gnu.org pages full of outdated "invariant
> sections", but the project page on savannah.gnu.org
> <https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=autoconf> points to the same list
> archives:
>
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/
>
> What I see is that half of traffic is spam and that neither Autoconf 2.58
> nor Autoconf 2.59 have been announced there.  However, the Autoconf 2.58
> announcement is in the autoconf-maintainers archives.
>
> What happened to the project and to the mailing lists?
>
> I'm ready to become a moderator of the autoconf list.  It appears that the
> traffic is not very heavy.  Besides, I have a Spamcop subscription, so I
> can reroute spam to my account and report it.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
>
>

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