On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 17:50, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:32:43PM -0800, nate wrote: [snip] > Be careful of applying the words "older" and "newer" to procps. There > are two forks of its codebase, and I don't think their version numbers > track each other. > > It wouldn't be the first time that Red Hat and Debian have ended up for > various historical reasons on two different branches of a fork: man and > man-db come to mind, but at least there the packages have different > names.
Ok, I'll bite: Why do Debian and RH track different branches of extremely common "packages" like top and man? -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I | | tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage | | the plane." | | RICHARD REID, who tried to blow up American Airlines | | Flight 63 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
