On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

>   And I don't think I've ever liked the change, and I'm happy it has
>   been reverted now, so I think I'll be packaging a git snapshot for
>   Debian pretty soon.
>
> I'd prefer not to see a CVS version of inetutils packaged in Debian,
> since it puts a extra burden on us; we would have to make sure that
> the CVS version is always usable/stable.  I am planing on making a new
> release very soon.
>

There is no burden on upstream - the right answer to distro consumers of a
package who come upstream looking for help is to refer them back to the
distro.

-- 
Jeff Bailey - http://www.raspberryginger.com/jbailey/
"This specification should be read like all other specifications. First, it
should be read cover-to-cover, multiple times. Then, it should be read
backwards at least once. Then it should be read by picking random sections
from the contents list and following all the cross-references."
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