Rex Dieter wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 07:33 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Benjamin Thery wrote:
My question is: why does Fedora ships flex 2.5.4a and not a more
recent one?
Probably at least 1 of:
* If it aint broke, don't fix it
* No one has asked
* Many flex versions > 2.5.4a had been too broken to be usable
* Many flex versions > 2.5.4a had been too incompatible to flex-2.5.x
* Many major packages have not been prepared for flex > 2.5.x
Probably explains why Benjamin noticed other distros with 2 flex
packages (one old, one new).
Perhaps someone could review possibilities
of dually-installed flex pkgs, and submit the "new" one to Extras. (:
This sounds like a good compromise. One of the first thing I did when
I discovered Debian has two packages was: heading to Extras to see if
there was also an "updated-experimental" flex package there :)
I've opened a bugzilla to track this update request: 190673.
Thanks for your answers.
Benjamin
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