Re: Freeze in 7 days??? (was Re: perl version depends)

1998-10-09 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: 2) Are we really going to freeze slink in 7 days? I dont think we should freeze until we have a broken libc in slink... -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and

Re: Freeze in 7 days??? (was Re: perl version depends)

1998-10-09 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: 2) Are we really going to freeze slink in 7 days? I dont think we should freeze until we have a broken libc in slink... ^ Hmpf... I meant while :) -- Madarasz Gergely

Freeze in 7 days??? (was Re: perl version depends)

1998-10-08 Thread Santiago Vila
Hi. 1) Don't we have to recompile all our ncurses-based apps against 4.2? 2) Are we really going to freeze slink in 7 days? I see that 1) and 2) don't mix very well. -- 76975153d9e889b854dd4ae6c231f5e9 (a truly random sig)

Re: Freeze in 7 days??? (was Re: perl version depends)

1998-10-08 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 05:53:19PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: 1) Don't we have to recompile all our ncurses-based apps against 4.2? If we want all the ncurses-based apps to use the same version of ncurses, yes. I'm not sure if we have to, though if I were the release manager, I wouldn't release

Re: Freeze in 7 days??? (was Re: perl version depends)

1998-10-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Brian White wrote: The general guideline for frozen is: no new code A recompile with a new package is fine. Fixes to make something work with a change in another package is also fine. Does this mean also no new documentation? For slink, I plan to provide the

Re: Freeze in 7 days??? (was Re: perl version depends)

1998-10-08 Thread Brian White
Does this mean also no new documentation? No. For slink, I plan to provide the texi2html-converted HTML for all my GNU packages, which means a new package foo-doc for every GNU foo package. Do I absolutely have to do this before the freeze? Will all my foo-doc packages be rejected because

Re: Freeze in 7 days??? (was Re: perl version depends)

1998-10-08 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 05:53:39PM +0200, J.H.M.Dassen wrote: 2) Are we really going to freeze slink in 7 days? Yes. Oops, I better hurry with my pending iceconf upload. :-) Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes | Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go SF49ers! Senior-Consultant |