Re: Concerns about GNU Bison maintenance.

"Carlos O'Donell" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.gnu.discuss
Message-ID <CAE2sS1iEh6Bn1N6vO6Zmv_Tc=6OyeuOwZ0gOYUJ24gvBFYE8nw@mail.gmail.com> 
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 2:58 PM Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Distros still have old versions of Bison (easily as far as ten years),
> possibly because they have discovered that Bison upgrades are
> radioactive.

In Fedora we update bison at each release.

In the last 10 years we've rebased bison 10 times following each
upstream release from 2.4.3 to 3.6.4 (just recently).

We do not avoid bison rebases.

Cheers,
Carlos.
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