On Wednesday, 30 October, 1996 22:49, Daniel Stringfield[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why can't anyone understand this? This was a 3 > day thing for me when I first did it, and wow, gee, we have more than 3 > days till monday! <sarcasm inserted here> I think if all the package > maintainers would just go and recompile, we would not be arguing about > this. And, it would take less than three days. No changes in source had > to be made, just re-compiling.. thats it.
But how would it be possible for every single package maintainer to recompile their particular package in the next three days?? What about the ones who are off on holidays, busy at work, etc. Add to that if they do compile they will need to upgrade the package to a higher version number and there may be a few little errors which creep in such as leaving out conf definitions and the like. There is no way that all packages in the debian distribution could be tested in the next three days. The reason why there is three months between releases is that the package sets come together and are known to work well. Recompiling everything three days before release is just asking for problems. But it doesn't pose a problem does it?? It just means that Debian 1.2 will be based on libc5.2 and all the packages in 1.2 have been tested over the last three months. libc5.4 (or greater) will still be available for those who dare in unstable and will be released in three months time when all these little niggly bugs are ironed out. A lot of people depend on stable, being just that. If Debian releases a buggy release it will reflect badly. We have a lot to loose and nothing to gain by including libc5.4 in 1.2. Mark --- Mark Purcell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lieutenant Commander, RAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (1793) 783 739 (tel/fax) http://www.navy.gov.au -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
