The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-13 Thread Paul M Sargent
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 09:53:41PM -, Steve Greenland wrote: Which is it? Do your friends want the newest bleeding edge stuff, or do they want stability? They can't have both at the same time! Oh, I see, the want the newest, but they want us to call it stable. OK, Here's a question then.

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-13 Thread Paul M Sargent
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 02:50:12PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:50:47AM +, Paul M Sargent wrote: Woody should be running 2.3 or pre-2.4. That should have been among the first things to change. There's a misunderstanding here: the distribution has no default

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-13 Thread Paul M Sargent
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:08:43AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: Woody should be running 2.3 or pre-2.4. That should have been among the first things to change. We are knee deep in a release cycle. We should not be expending our resources on woody right now. Ohh, Agreed. Potato is

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-13 Thread Paul M Sargent
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 03:30:53PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 01:43:46PM +, Paul M Sargent wrote: ...but a distribution is designed for a particular kernel. e.g. slink is designed for 2.0.x with some packages for 2.2.x support. But slink is practically