On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:52:14AM +0545, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > If the policy of Debian, notably Debian Stable says not to fix packages > like gaim and similars (be it anyway, increasing version, backporting > patches) when problems occuer making them totally useles (take a look at > gaim -- it won't connect to Yahoo in the current version), the policy of > Debian does suck. Am I wrong ????? >
The changes are necessiated by factors other than debian and gaim. There are changes at yahoo end. Don't blame poor debian for it ! The default gaim with most distros of woody vintage would also be affected. If yahoo messenger is very important for you use ymessenger from the yahoo site. This is usually updated before any changes are made on the yahoo messenger system. Otherwise, nothing stopping you from compiling the source (or converting the default binary rpm to deb) from gaim.sf.net and using it. debian is totally a voluntary effort. It is remarkable how they maintain the whole thing so well orchestrated as a co- operative venture without drop in quality for so many years. Quite a few distros like Knoppix and Corel (now Xandros) is based on this enterprise. Their policy of forward enhancemnt rather than retro-fit makes a lot of sense, when you view it in totality. All security related issues are retro-fixed, usually before most major distros. It is not for nothing that folk at google and sourceforge run off thousands of debian servers ... No distro sucks because yahoo messaging does not work ;-) Just my unbiased view (a Slack/ LFS user) ... Bish -- : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : How to make apt-getable deb packages ? LOST #398 Install the `apt-utils' package, `apt-ftparchive' helps create Package and other index files. man apt-ftparchive, man apt-sortpkgs, man apt-extracttemplates ####[ragu (at) vsnl.com]###################################### : ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
