Re: [Monotone-devel] Time for a release

[Thomas Keller]

Zack Weinberg schrieb:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Thomas Keller <address@hidden> wrote:
>> As I've already announced on IRC I want to do a release in the next
>> couple of days, a possible date could be Sunday, 2009-03-15, but
>> depending on the feedback what people like to get done before 0.43 hits
>> the world, I'll not insist on this date.
> 
> The Debian packaging scripts need a major overhaul for the .stripped
> work.  I will not have time for this until a week from Friday (that's
> the 20th).  This does not *have* to hold the release but I would
> prefer that it did, because it is likely that I will find changes
> needing to be made in the code proper, or at least the documentation.

Ok, I'm fine with that. Then I schedule the release for 22nd of March.

>> 0) I've came across a couple of older systems where our dependency for
>> prce (7.6, released in January 2008) could not be met. I know 7.6
>> includes an important buffer overflow fix and I know this probably was
>> backported by some lts distros, but still, from a *functional* point of
>> view, what version of pcre is required? Seems as if the first pcre
>> version we've included was 7.4 in monotone-0.37 (at least this was the
>> most recent one before 0.37 was released).
> 
> I believe 7.4 is the minimum for functionality, yes.

I've lowered our requirement to 7.4.

Thanks,
Thomas.

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