Re: New libtool maintainer

[Ozkan Sezer]

On 2/8/22, Julien ÉLIE <julien@trigofacile.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
>> Feel free to reach out if you have pending patches/issues you want to
>> "bump", ideas for improvements, general advice for a new GNU maintainer
>> - and above all if you'd like to lend a hand toward getting `libtool' up
>> and running again.
>
> Many thanks for your work on Libtool!
>
> I believe a good start would be to integrate suggestions and patches
> from the issue tracker
>
>    https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group=libtool
>
> and maybe also some patches Debian (and other distributions) have added
> over the years to the last 2.4.6 release.  For instance:
>
>    https://sources.debian.org/patches/libtool/2.4.6-15/

Some of the outstanding bugs with existing patches :
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38305
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=23348
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=21137
           (and its dups at 22895, 31900, and 36762)
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=21503
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22373
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=46559

Some of the outstanding bugs without any suggested patches:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=45738
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=52253
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=53479