On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Paul Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I suppose all 67 megs in bo-updates is being held there for some other > > reason? > > I had a phone conversation with Guy Maor. He says he'll make the release > next week. He says he has no problem with the version numbering scheme. > He was not waiting for me. He says he understands why someone would be > impatient with 67 megs sitting there, and says that bo-updates was only > a temporary solution and this should not be the usual state of our release > engineering.
That's good to hear. Some of us vendors actually use Debian in our business operations so we benefit along with our customers. > > A substantial part of that 67MB is the X change for Richard Stallman. > XDM prints "Debian GNU/Linux" rather than "Debian Linux". All of X got > rebuilt to keep the release numbers consistent. I have no problem > accomodating Richard, but I don't need to rush this change to every last > user and make them spend money to get it, do I? As long as it doesn't print 'Microsoft' or 'Slackware', it doesn't bother me a bit. This is the type of change that I normally note on my 'busy list' of things to do before releasing the next needed upgrade. I usually upgrade packages for the bug fixes and new features. Inserting 'GNU/' in a constant is neither. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Now shipping version 1.3.? + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .