Re: jhbuild update required

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Colin Walters wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 15:13 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Could we get a new jhbuild release then? Some distributions (Debian,
> > > Ubuntu, openSUSE) have jhbuild packaged in their repositories.
> > 
> > jhbuild is not meant to be packaged. I'd highly suggest you stop
> > packaging jhbuild.
> 
> Well...there are some good and bad things about packaging jhbuild.  The
> bad thing is that there's often a large lag time before packages are
> updated.  The good thing is it's easier to install.
> 
> Craig, any thoughts on doing a release?

I just pushed a 3.5.91 tarball.

@Jasper: jhbuild packages can be quite useful to get core dependencies
installed (git, autotools, etc.), I'd encourage them.


        Fred