I plan to send out the following mail to fink-beginners, fink-user, and fink-announce. Please tell me what you think of it, if should forget the idea, or change something about it; you may also want to suggest changes to the list of "important" package I gave (I tried to keep it short, but obviously, everybody will have a different opinion on what is important).
Dear Fink user, we, the Fink team, would like to make a new full Fink release in the near future. For this, we'd like to move as many package to stable as possible. But to be able to do so, we need *your* help! Under http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/testing.php, you can find a long list of packages which are in unstable, but not yet in stable. And it's a long list (over 550 packages). Please, look through this list. If you see packages you are using succesfully, please report it to the package maintainer, so that he can decide to move that package to stable. You can find out the email address of the maintainer by clicking on the link for each package; or alternatively, you can enter "fink info PACKAGE" to see the maintainer of any given package. Some package that would especially important to see in stable (so look for those first): apache bash db3 / db3-bin / db3-doc / db3-shlibs db4 / db4-bin / db4-doc / db4-shlibs freetype2 / freetype2-shlibs gimp glib / glib-shlibs all gnome packages mysql orbit xfree86-base 4.2.0-4 and xfree86-rootless 4.2.0-2 But don't limit yourself to these, *any* package is important! Just remember, Fink is a group effort. We can't do without your help! Thank you for helping, Max Horn Fink Lead Developer _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
