Frozen for Fedora 8 Test1

[Chris Brown]

On 25/07/07, Frank Schmitt <ich at frank-schmitt.net> wrote:
> Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> writes:
>
> > We have frozen for Fedora 8 Test 1.  A "freeze" tag exists, 'f8-test1'
> > that is a container for the packages that are destined to be in Test1
> > (and rawhide until test1 is fully composed and released to mirrors).
>
> I guess that means yet another release with broken zsh when the fix
> would be just updating the package to upstream, as upstream developers
> recommend.

No, because as Matthias pointed out in the the bug release below it is
not included in the default install. There's a chance that given the
comments made by the development team the maintainer will re-consider
upgrading to this release.

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183557
> http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2007/msg00471.html
>
> I mean OpenSuse and Ubuntu think zsh 4.3.x it's good enough for their
> release, not to mention that even Debian includes 4.3 in their *stable*
> release. Only the fedora maintainer sticks to 4.2 leaving everyone who
> is using a UTF-8 locale with a broken shell.
>
> This is just ridiculous.

No, its a technical decision not to ship an unstable release. That
said, Fedora *is* supposed to be cutting edge stuff and if the only
argument against version bumping is upstream's versioning system
(since dismissed on their mailing list) I agree that its high time to
up the game a little. :)

Regards
Chris

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