This is really off-topic, but it's one of my pet peeves. Sorry.
Rob Browning:
5) Debian should use either the big or little endian format and always
use four digits for the year. That way we won't have trouble when the
millenium hits, and you can always tell by looking if it's big or
little
Rob Browning:
Why in the world wouldn't you want to require 4 digits for the date?
Because of all the usual bad reasons, and one good one: it
doesn't matter. The LSM dates are always past tense, and
making the new requirement is trivial, all of thirty seconds
of coding. Converting all old
On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
[1] Yes, I know it was probably deliberate, but American middle-endian
date-formats are stupid and confusing and I want them stamped out.
You have better things to do than to stamp about for the rest of your
life. Also, you will never get anyone's
Mark W. Eichin writes (Re: Bug#4329: Emacs has hardcoded path for jka-compr,
breaks at upgrade):
Did you upgrade from 19.29-3 to 19.31-2 as indicated in your message,
or to 19.34-2, which is current?
19.34-2 hasn't reached my local mirror yet. Isn't it still in
Incoming ?
(I ask, because I
Package: emacs
Version: 19.31-2
I just upgraded from 19.29-3, and it left me with the following
/etc/site-start.el:
(load /usr/lib/emacs/19.29/lisp/jka-compr.elc)
(if (file-exists-p /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/w3-init.el) (load w3-init))
(autoload 'lout-mode lout-mode Mode for editing Lout source
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