On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:12:50 -0500 (EST) "William Hooper" <whooperhsd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Andre Costa said: > > On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 11:50:31 -0600 > > "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> At 11:22 3/8/2004, you wrote: > >> >BTW: still waiting for the answer for the CVS question... ;) > >> > >> Don't know, but you might want to "rpm -qi cvs" on your computer, > >then> "rpm -q --changelog cvs" and look for the package maintainer. > >Send> him/her a nice email asking why a newer package hasn't been > >released,> and see what you get back. :-) > > > > Nice tip, will do that too. I am affraid though that people personal > > email might not get through, but it's definitely worth a try. > > I would also suggest being prepared when they reply "What feature is > missing?". Upgrading just for the sake of having a newer version is > just a PITA for a maintaner, but if a number of people want version > foo because of feature bar, that carries more weight. As someone else > pointed out, development has version 1.11.11, so it might be as easy > as rebuilding the src.rpm. Right, makes sense. I will get the devel SRPM and see what comes out of it. I don't have a specific demand for latest CVS, this was just curiosity (increased by the huge changelog). Best, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
