Hi List! Nick Rusnov, the current Debian maintainer of nmh asked me to forward the following message to this list:
------- Forwarded Message Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:25:38 -0700 From: Nick Rusnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Harald Geyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: nmh list stuffa Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:56:32PM -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote: > My $0.02 regarding the whole 1.1 release naming: > > I would have preferred that 1.1 not really be out there. I never > announced it and I couldn't remove it, but somehow it ended up as the > release for a bunch of systems. I never considered this a "real" > release myself. > > But as Jon has discovered, there are plenty of people out there who > will speak up when they think you're doing the wrong thing, but damn > few who will actually help. My advice to Jon is: do what you want, and > the rest of the world will have to suck it up if they don't like it. > You're doing the work: that gives you the right to make the decision. > I think he should give consideration to other people's opinions, but > the decision is ultimately his. I guess I should pipe up with why debian has a 1.1-release nmh package. The debian package is based on the appearently ill-fated 1.1-release that was uploaded to somewhere or other (savannah I assume). My memory is a bit fuzzy but I could've sworn there was some sort of announcement, although the closest I could find was this message from Ken http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2004-09/msg00013.html Not an announcement by any means. Even though the the package is version 1.1-release it wouldn't be much of an imposition to have another 1.1 "real" release, as I could version it a variety of ways (1.1-release-official and 1.1-release2 evaluate as 'greater' versions than 1.1-release, and of course 1.2 is greater than 1.1-release also). Maybe to reduce users' confusion 1.2 would be better, but it can't be claimed that its needed for package management version control. - -- - -><- Nick Rusnov - -><- http://nick.industrialmeats.com - -><- [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- End of Forwarded Message _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
