[suggest] Re: suggest Digest, Vol 37, Issue 17

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

suggest-request at lists.rpmforge.net wrote:
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:13:52 +1100
> From: "Michael Mansour" <mic at npgx.com.au>
> Subject: [suggest] awstats 6.8 RPM
> To: "suggest lists.rpmforge.net" <suggest at lists.rpmforge.net>
> Message-ID: <20080727021110.M39647 at npgx.com.au>
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> Hi Dag,
>
> I noticed the new awstats 6.8 RPM has both the awstats.model.conf.rpmnew and
> awstats.localhost.localdomain.conf files populated with Windows "^M"'s, which
> I had to remove for them to be usable.
>
> This may be an oversight by the awstats developer, but it is a major one when
> installing on UNIX/Linux.
>
> Should this be fixed in RPMforge or reported to the developer to then release
> a bugfix?
>
> Michael.
>
>   
Wait, wait! I know this one! The answer is 'yes'.

Some packages don't update very often, and thus would take an 
inconvenitnely long time to get updated by the maintainers. Others 
update very quickly, and the fix propagates very quickly from upstream, 
so it really varies. Take a look at the awstats source trees and see how 
often new releases happen: that will help you decide.