On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 at 4:59pm, Toralf Lund wrote > On 22/04 2002 15:08 Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar > So it is (and I quote) "unstable, incomplete, or otherwise unsuited for > official > publication." > > Seems like Red Hat and others have not "respected the good judgement of > maintainers", though, and ineed included it in an official distribution. > > Comments, anyone? You'll have to ask the tar maintainer(s) why there hasn't been an official release since (as you noted) 1999, especially given that there are obvious bugs fixed in the development releases. I would guess *that* is why just about every distro out there includes these "alpha" releases. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
