Hi Jason,
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:39:21 +1000 you wrote:
> > 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
>
> OK fair enough. I was thinking along the lines of 0.19-1 or something
> like that. Nevermind.
>
Some distros will do "patched" local sub-versions like that - certainly
Gentoo and Fedora do - but it's not (normally) something upstream will
do unless they're fully committed to the "release-early-release-often"
philosophy.
>
> > waiting for the next Ubuntu version (and persuading the distro team to
> > do it).
>
> Yes, so it'll be at least Ubuntu 12.04 before this is resolved.
Indeed, but it's probably not that much of an issue. If you are looking
to get something into Ubuntu it won't be there before 12.04 anyway, and
if your users are installing avrdude from source then they can probably
install a patched libftdi. If you want to produce a binary installer
for Ubuntu but not make it part of the distro, then you can provide a
libftdi-0.19-r1 of your own in parallel - or get the Ubuntu team to do
so, if they're willing. My experience has been that this is much easier
with the Gentoo team, who provide bug reporting facilities and actually
respond to what gets submitted.
Cheers,
Rob
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