Hi Martin,
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:22:06AM +1000, Martin wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2001, Michael X Haynes wrote:
>
> There are some points against Debian as well though, like for example,
> the fact that often the only source of a package is the maintainer, and
> in some cases, like mozilla, the packages can get way behind. For
> example, I believe the current mozilla package in unstable is M18, and
> if it's not, it was till recently. Mozilla's a fairly substantial
> compile...
I think the mozilla issue is probably a non-us problem as I gather from
another list, here's what one needs to add to sources.list to get mozilla
0.8.1:
# kitame's mozilla
deb http://www.debian.or.jp/~kitame/mozilla ./
Also, on that same list someone said he had contacted the maintainer about
the mozilla package slipping behind, but got a snap-back saying that the
new version introduces more bugs (!? we're talking unstable here..) so he
probably isn't the friendliest developer in the project. No mention of the
non-us problem per se..note that now you've heard it from a 3-ary source
so the you'll have to decide the adequate salt intake level for yourselves
:-)
Cheers,
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