Re: monotone 1.2 release?

Hi Lapo,

as the one still maintaining Monotone in Fedora, I would very much=20
welcome a release!

Ideally, it would at least incorporate the patches that we have here:=20
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/monotone/tree/rawhide , but also=20
Botan2 and pcre2... if I may wish something :)

Best,
Thomas

Am 28.04.25 um 18:02 schrieb Lapo Luchini:
> Hi all.
>
> monotone is long since not available anymore on FreeBSD and on Debian,=
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> I've been using locally compiled versions (which I have been seldom=20
> reported in this group) for a while now and I wonder=E2=80=A6 would it m=
ake=20
> sense to make a 1.2 release easier to use with modern=20
> compiler/dependencies for anyone?
>
> I'm not up to the task of full maintainership (for lack of time I can=20
> dedicate to the project), but doing a rare release once in a while to=20
> keep stuff from rotting and at least compile I could probably do.
>
> Any interest here?
>
> Would it make sense for a real "release"?
> Would we have any objections?
>
> Also: I guess the user-base is small enough that mostly everybody is=20
> capable of building their own binary by themselves anyways, but it=20
> would be nice to have "easier" binaries in repos anyways. Or at the=20
> very least, I'd like to do that in FreeBSD (and Arch AUR).
> (I'm not so sure about Debian, me not being a user myself)
>
> (The changelog would in be very clear that it is a purely maintenance=20
> release and not to expect new features or big changes anytime soon.)
>
> cheers,
> Lapo
>
>