Re: Old Flex version in FC5?

[Benjamin Thery <benjamin thery bull net>]

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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