Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:17:19 +0100 | Subject | Re: [OT] portable Makefiles (was: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)) |
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David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 07:47:58PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> wrote: > > > > > > Uhm, the version of GNU make in Debian (3.81beta4) was released > > > > 12 December 2005; I wouldn't call that dead (or unmaintained). > > > > > > Oh, and as an update, 3.81rc1 was release on the 19th of February 2006. > > > > > > Yeah, very unmaintained and dead upstream... > > > > None of the bugs I did report has been fixed. > > Well, the bug you complain most about is about spewing of some > warnings for something completely harmless. I know of another > certain set of software that spews unnecessary and annoying > warnings. Those haven't been removed for despite complaints for > several years either. Does this mean that cdrecord is an unmaintained > piece of software that's dead upstream?
If you do not understand the diffeence between a useful warning (as with cdrecord) and a warning that is a result of a severe bug caused by incorrect make file handling (as in GNU make) you are obviously wrong here.
Jörg
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