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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 05:08:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: perl-5.6.0 ready for test! (IMPORTANT READ THIS MESSAGE ON MAINTAINER STATUS!)
To: Michael Ring <Michael DOT Ring AT t-mobil DOT de>,
        "cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT com" <cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
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--- Michael Ring <Michael DOT Ring AT t-mobil DOT de> wrote:
> perl-5.6.0 is perl period ;-)
> 
-8<-
> 
> PACKAGING STATUS:
> 
> When tested this package should go nowhere (or perhaps contrib) version 5.6.1
> should go to contrib
> 

IMHO, automake, autoconf, libtool and perl should be a part of the base package
and therefore should go to the latest directory and not to the contrib
directory.  Perl is required by the other three and automake, autoconf and
libtool [are|have] becom[ing|e] a de facto standard.

Cheers,

=====
---
   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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