On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:53:53AM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > and he was very much annoyed that he was getting bugreports for an X > > version that he didn't make. > > sure, but there is my name and email in the changelog file, this should > appear in the maintainer field, isn't it ?
Nope. Doesn't work that way, the one in the control file will. > actually i checked, my packages are in potato, branden's one in slink, > there should be no problem, that's what unstable is for, and we should > not use experimental for this kind of things, at least that's what > written in the developper doc, or even the policy, don't remember well. Um. Branden also has packages in potato. > so i thought, ... > > but we need 3.3.3.1 for powerpc, and it is against the DFSG to make a > source less upload of such stuff. > > also i don't think using the X packages of the japanese debian folk is > not the solution, we need true 3.3.3 and up packages in main debian, if > branden has no time for that, ok, he says it, and people like me will > jump in, and make the packaging, under his direction would be best. X > is to huge a package to handle alone. ANd this will not help him in his > current flamewar about the X reorg. If you hadn't noticed, I've had 3.3.3 packages in my home directory for months. I am waiting to pester Branden about them until slink X is fixed, because every one of the changes he needs to make to it will also need to be made to 3.3.3.1. It only introduces confusion to have both versions packaged. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| CMU, CS class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Part-Time Systems Programmer | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
