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Steven Penny wrote:
> These are major packages, not just "user X favorite package". Several people
> including myself have offered to update them, only to be met with "Sorry, I am
> maintainer not you. I will do it when I get time". It gets old after a while.
>

Well, if you don't want to wait, and you're confident of your ability to 
update, then do so. You don't have to publish the package to use it on 
your own system.

I don't know anything about the git source, but I know that bash and 
coreutils are a pain to update, because there's so much in both that 
depends upon Windows text mode/binary mode annoyances. Also, bash (I 
believe) understands Windows paths, and that doesn't make porting any 
easier either. I spent a very brief time looking at updating bash 
myself, and decided it wasn't worth the pain.

I've done a little with coreutils in the past, and I suspect if I had 
to, I could update it using the patches from the last version as a 
starting point, but I haven't found a need to do so yet.

-- 
Chris J. Breisch

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