On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > Derrick Brashear <[email protected]> writes: >> Atro Tossavainen <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> I wouldn't even want to try going there :) > >>> I was just trying to explain what I thought was the reason. I'm not >>> taking a stance on whether it's sensible or whether OpenAFS should try >>> to accommodate any particular third party with its version numbering >>> scheme as you suggest :-) > >> gzcat openafs-1.4.14-src.tar.gz|sed s/1.4.14/1.4.12.1/g |gzip -9 > >> openafs-1.4.12.1a-src.tar.gz > > Regardless of how the version number changes, humans read and review the > diffs going into a Debian stable release and only minimal changes to fix > qualifying bugs are accepted.
basically, if the fix is invasive, you have to live with the bug. which is why i continually mock their idea of what stable is. i like my machines to stay up. -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
