>Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:36:01 -0400 >From: "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: xfstt > >On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 07:54:55AM -0700, Bill Bell wrote: >> >> Will there be a more current version of xfstt in Debian 2.0? I have >> been staying out of slink until I have a better handle on everything. >> xfstt 0.9.7-1 is the version I am seeing in Hamm today. > >I am sorry but no. >I became the maintianer just after hamm went into code freeze, so I couldn't >upload a new version of the package unless it fixed major bugs...and >their weren't any releace critical bugs against it. > >Also...these are new upstream versions...also a no no for code freeze. >Now with 2.0 in Beta....the only place I can put changes at all would >be in slink...soo.... > >the "up side" is that slink packages are pretty much interchangable with >hamm packages. Unlike the bo->hamm upgrade...slink as of yet makes >no major changes... >in fact form a "currrent" hamm system...I only needed to >download 13 MB of files to make a current slink system (as of 2 days ago) >of course the pitfalls mentioned before still apply to xfstt anyway >-Steve > >-- >/* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------ */ >A favorite quote from a source I forget: >"Only Microsoft can take an algorithim that has been under years of >public scrutiny and weaken it to the point where the entire key space >can be searched in 3 days" > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Thanks for the GOOD information. Looks like I will be getting just a little "slink" ;-) Bill Bell ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null