Hi Jason,
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:51:33 +1000 you wrote:
> I'd be
> grateful if you could somehow incorporate the 232H patches into an
> updated 0.19 label so it could at least flow into the upcoming Ubuntu
> and other new distributions. Is this doable?
If you mean what you appear to have written, the answer is blatantly
no. Of course not. Release versions are fixed and set in stone for
ever. Otherwise you'd never know what anyone was really running when
their system claims to have v0.19 and mighty chaos would ensue.
So when you ask for patches in 0.18 or 0.19, the only thing the
upstream developers could do is release a v0.20 with those patches. But
Ubuntu 11.10 would still ship with 0.19 because that's what Ubuntu's
11.10 version ships with, and they can't change that any more than the
libFTDI upstream can re-write history on v0.19!
Your only option is to modify AVRDUDE's build / install process to fail
with a meaningful error and instruct the user to install a more recent
libFTDI than the system one. This will, of course, prevent Ubuntu from
shipping AVRDUDE in 11.10 but that issue can only be resolved by
waiting for the next Ubuntu version (and persuading the distro team to
do it).
HTH
Rob
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