Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-15 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 13, Sam Ockman wrote Okay, so say some random person who has installed Debian wants XEmacs 19.15 because he needs some feature. This seems like a reasonable request... He could get it from the Hamm distribution, except that would mean he'd need libc6...and he doesn't want to do that,

Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-15 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Hudon) wrote on 14.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jun 13, Sam Ockman wrote Okay, so say some random person who has installed Debian wants XEmacs 19.15 because he needs some feature. This seems like a reasonable request... He could get it from the Hamm

Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-14 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Okay, so say some random person who has installed Debian wants XEmacs 19.15 because he needs some feature. This seems like a reasonable request... He could get it from the Hamm distribution, except that would mean he'd need libc6...and he doesn't want to do that, because he's heard that it

Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-14 Thread Sam Ockman
Okay, so say some random person who has installed Debian wants XEmacs 19.15 because he needs some feature. This seems like a reasonable request... He could get it from the Hamm distribution, except that would mean he'd need libc6...and he doesn't want to do that, because he's heard that it will

Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
Okay, I know that before 1.3 was released, for a long time period the only changes that were being accepted were updates that fixed bugs. Updates that only provided new features were not allowed. Now that 1.3 has shipped, are updates allowed to replace old packages, or are replacment

Simple policy question...

1997-06-14 Thread Sam Ockman
Okay, I know that before 1.3 was released, for a long time period the only changes that were being accepted were updates that fixed bugs. Updates that only provided new features were not allowed. Now that 1.3 has shipped, are updates allowed to replace old packages, or are replacment packages

Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-14 Thread Buddha Buck
Okay, so say some random person who has installed Debian wants XEmacs 19.15 because he needs some feature. This seems like a reasonable request... He could get it from the Hamm distribution, except that would mean he'd need libc6...and he doesn't want to do that, because he's heard that it

Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-14 Thread Mark Baker
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The most solid ground not to switch to libc6 is not instability from the user's point of view (may be libc6 is not that bad), but from the point of view of developer who's using different kind of commercial