> <snip>
>> 4.  Man pages for slon, slonik, as well as all the slonik commands can
>> now be generated.
>
> Building and installing man pages is very hard atm in current 1.1-stable.
> Can I still backport my makefile and configure fixes for 1.2? Or is that
> too late?

That should be a low-impact change; it certainly oughtn't break the
engine.  I think the person who will be affected most by any side-effects
of this will be Devrim Gunduz.

I'd suggest proposing a patch, sooner than later.  If it causes a lot of
anxiety, we may not be able to take it on, but if it isn't overly
controversial...

>> 5.  There is official Debian packaging under way, in the
>> "experimental" area.
>
> Same thing here. I made a lot of fixes in the 1.2 buildsystem to help
> our packagers and I'm sure they would like those fixes in 1.1.5 too.
>
> If you all find that it is too late for that, so be it.

I expect that there is a greater risk that this would have painful
side-effects, as changes to the buildsystem affect everyone doing
packaging.  Again, Devrim is probably the one most directly affected, so
if he gets anxious about a proposed patch, that would be the source of the
go/no-go...