On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > The next version of apt should be fine. The archive at alpha.gnu.org is only > meant for temporary uploads for the impatient and for testing. Currently, > there is dpkg (doesn't build from source, am waiting for the CVS version to > be released), util-linux (hackery-hack), apt (only small issues, will be > fine soon), X 3.3.6 (big mess, 4.0.1 was worked on in the meanwhile, but > changes are not incorporated). > > I think the X situation will only change dramatically when Branden releases > his 4.0.1 packages (which hopefully have the patches I sent him by then). > util-linux is a bad little boy: Nobody wants to port it properly and send > the changes back to the maintainer. It isn't hard, but the current Makefiles > are simply crap, that's why. dpkg CVS version is partially broken, so it is > not going to be released soon. I could backport my changes, but I am more > currently interested to work on other, original stuff. > The easiest way around this would be to include alpha.gnu.org as a local file system and ammend the exclusion list accordingly.
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