Re: time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support)

On the subject of Debian, we could probably get an RC into experimental and ask for archive rebuilds and say that we were hoping to get 2.72 approved for a bookworm stable update.

zw

On Fri, Feb 3, 2023, at 2:43 AM, Frederic Berat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm also in favor of an RC release, I can then rebuild Fedora packages using the tarball from the tester list and do some kind of A/B testing.
> 
> Fred.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 6:50 AM Sam James <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> > On 2 Feb 2023, at 23:17, Zack Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Due to a series of crises with my day job, the earliest I can promise to do _anything_ Autoconf related is early March. If you have time to make a release before then, please do not wait for me.
>> > 
>> 
>> Sorry to hear Zack, hope you're doing ok. I think your input on the issues we've been talking about has been enough
>> for us to each a good position for now.
>> 
>> Paul in particular, please let me know if there's something I can do to help. I'm already giving it the standard rounds of usage
>> in Gentoo. Perhaps we could tag an RC and shove it into the platform-testers list? It's non-commital so while I'd like
>> to move forward before March for the final release, if in the event you didn't feel comfortable doing that,
>> we'd at least have made some progress.
>> 
>> Best,
>> sa