On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 17:15:00 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > >I find it very hard to believe that Bruce is acting on himself. I > >firmly believe that his decisions are based upon serious discussions > >between many > > No developer has yet to post that the new 'policy' of backlogging rev > numbers was discussed and decided on the devel list.
manoj is a developer, and he's said that. bruce is a developer and he's said it too. other developers have got involved in this stupid thread and said that. i'm a developer, and i'm saying that it certainly WAS discussed at length by the debian developers on the debian developer's mailing lists. bruce was convinced by a majority of developers that this was the best way - initially he was against it. in any case, version numbers for debian as a whole are irrelevant. the only version numbers that count are the version numbers on the individual packages. The version number for the debian dist. itself is, IMO, little more than a marketing convenience specifically FOR cd-rom makers anyway. as far as the ftp site goes, the important thing is that any future revisions of bo (aka 1.3) are in a directory tree with a Packages file which dselect can use. Now that Guy is back from his holiday that will undoubtedly happen when he has time to do it. you are making a huge fuss about nothing. it got very boring several days ago. now it is tedious and annoying. you've made your points several times and you've only found one person who agrees with you...either find something new to whine about or shut up and go away. Finally, this argument doesn't belong on debian-user. take it over to debian-policy if you really must continue with it. debian-user has too much traffic on it already, without all the crap being generated on this subject. > >If you had brought your points in a more considered tone, people might > >actually agree with you on some of these points. > > If you, or these people you mention are so brain-damaged that they > can't agree with something soley on it's merits but instead disagree > soley and the way it was mentioned, then their opinion doesn't count > very much for me. i guess some people just don't like being insulted. btw, your arguments have very little merit anyway. craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .