Re: [Valgrind-users] Bug fix release?

[IMoL <im...@gm...>]

On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 2:02 PM, John Reiser <jr...@bi...> wrote:

> There was a recent fix for a bug in 3.13.0 "--xml-socket doesn't work":
>>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382998
>>
>
> How does the valgrind project make a decision about releasing a bug fix
>> version?
>>
>
> The number, nature, severity, and impact of the bugs;
> the intrusiveness of the fixes, and the resources available
> to create a new version, test it, and distribute the result.
>
>
>> Is there any possibility this fix will be in a release "soon" or at least
>> before mid-2018?
>>
>
> The patch already has been applied to the source tree,
> so it will be in the next regular major release, which probably
> will be some time in the last 3 months of this calendar year.
> I'd say that it is unlikely that there will be a special bug fix release.
>

Great - thanks for the info John!

- Andy


>
> The fix for this bug is so trivial that almost any software developer
> should be successful at checking out the code and re-building it.
> So why don't you try that?  (See README, README_DEVELOPERS,
> README_PACKAGERS, etc.)


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