Re: jhbuild update required

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 15:13 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com> wrote:
> > On 5 September 2012 14:56, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> TL;DR: Run "git pull -r && make install" in your jhbuild checkouts.
> >>
> >> The latest "systemmodules" work has landed in jhbuild; in the default
> >> configuration where modulesets are fetched via HTTP, the new ones will
> >> fail to parse with the old code.
> >
> > Could we get a new jhbuild release then? Some distributions (Debian,
> > Ubuntu, openSUSE) have jhbuild packaged in their repositories.
> 
> jhbuild is not meant to be packaged. I'd highly suggest you stop
> packaging jhbuild.

Well...there are some good and bad things about packaging jhbuild.  The
bad thing is that there's often a large lag time before packages are
updated.  The good thing is it's easier to install.

Craig, any thoughts on doing a release?