From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@redhat.com>
> >Also, amost no changes will be backported to 1.10. Any bug
> >reporter are asked to try the latest alpha. I think alpha is a
> >poor name for the code. It much beter than alpha usually
> >implies.
>
> Regardless, it is named an 'alpha' release, and as maintainer of
> the package in Red Hat Linux, it wont go into Red Hat Linux until
> it is an official stable release. If the author claims it to be
> more stable and reliable than 1.10, then he should release it as
> 1.12 or whatever and continue developing new code in a new
> development tree.
>
> It is unfortunate that this is the way it is, but it is this way
> because it has to be this way. If I were to include 1.11aX and
> then someone complain that it doesn't work for them, and then
> bitch on slashdot that Red Hat shipped a broken "alpha" version
> of cdrtools, I would not be very happy now would I? So, it wont
> happen.
So put it into the Red Hat "alpha" directory path, rawhide. Then the
"newness" demanding bozoids can get it without it offending the other
demanding bozoids who are mortally offended by alpha code, right?
{^_-}
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