Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: XFree86 3.3.3 hasn't been Debianized by me (the X maintainer) yet. I gave my blessing to anyone who wanted to try it and upload it to experimental, [...] Slink will ship XFree86 3.3.2.3. Once I'm done hammering the bugs out of that, I will

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, I am converting from RedHat to Debian and in the main am pleased with Debian. One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles updated packages. Normally, updated packages go into unstable, which is a sort of work-in-progress area. Every now and then, unstable gets

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 07:22:26AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: (FWIW, XFree 3.3.3 is in slink.) No, it isn't. XFree86 3.3.3 hasn't been Debianized by me (the X maintainer) yet. I gave my blessing to anyone who wanted to try it and upload it to experimental, as long as they put DON'T REPORT

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-11 Thread Randy Edwards
One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles updated packages. For example XFree86 3.3.3 is out now, will this eventually be integrated into the 2.0 release or are the packages in this release frozen except for bug fixes? Hamm (Debian 2.0) is presently stable it will not

Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-10 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Reply-To: Hi I am converting from RedHat to Debian and in the main am pleased with Debian. One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles updated packages. For example XFree86 3.3.3 is out now, will this eventually be integrated into the 2.0 release or are the packages in this

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 16:38:10 +, Patrick Colbeck wrote: I am converting from RedHat to Debian and in the main am pleased with Debian. One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles updated packages. For example XFree86 3.3.3 is out now, will this eventually be integrated