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[Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am 10.06.19 um 01:46 schrieb Ian McInerney:
> Is there a reason that pushing a change like this can't wait until the
> 5.1.3 release?

that's up to the packagers in my eyes and the severity of the issue. As
far I read the reason behind the request from Holger it's an important
enough update to provide an updated version 5.1.2 for macOS.

> Wayne had mentioned wanting to try to get it out the door in
> early July, which wouldn't be that far off. That would also give more
> uniformity in its roll out across the various platforms, and allow for
> easier identification of if a user is using the ngsice-30 version when bug
> reports are filed (since apparently the version information doesn't seem to
> contain that).

There will be always differences between Windows, Linux and macOS that
can't be completely wiped out. And the required and uniformed versions
of the build dependencies are only solvable by the configure settings.

> On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 10:01 PM Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>> How about making 5.1.2-1 or -2 or whatever.  I don't like replacing
>> packages that have been released.

Yes of course, only increase the packaging version.

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Regards
Carsten Schoenert