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 Ger

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)

1998-10-08 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 |

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 be

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 prov

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

1998-10-08 Thread Brian White
> > 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 2.1 before all ncurses-based apps used the same vers

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