On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 05:14:51AM +0300, Lasse Karkkainen wrote: > You are probably sick and tired of this topic, but ... > IT'S A QUARTER YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF 4.2.0 RELEASE! > > Yes, it really has been three (3) months (!) since it was released.
so? 4.1 works just fine. > Time to throw some gasoline on the flames ... Branden apparently is > incapable of releasing it. So, I suggest that anyone, with enough > knowledge and TIME, reading this, would volunteer as XFree package > maintainer. Branden's comments suggest that he just doesn't have > enough time for that. this may shock the hell out of Branden but i think he does an *excellent* job with the XFree packages. i may have some disagreements with him on various issues, but i have no problem at all with the quality or frequency of his work. debian needs more developers of his caliber. he took on X (an incredibly difficult set of packages) when everybody else had too much sense to even think about doing it and has done a fantastic job with it. there's a lot more to packaging a program than just compiling it and hoping that it mostly works on your own system. if you want that kind of "quality-control" then try redhat's contrib packages. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]