Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 05:14:51AM +0300, Lasse Karkkainen wrote:
> You are probably sick and tired of this topic, but ...
> IT'S A QUARTER YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF 4.2.0 RELEASE!
>
> Yes, it really has been three (3) months (!) since it was released.
so? 4.1 works just fine.
> Time to throw some gasoline on the flames ... Branden apparently is
> incapable of releasing it. So, I suggest that anyone, with enough
> knowledge and TIME, reading this, would volunteer as XFree package
> maintainer. Branden's comments suggest that he just doesn't have
> enough time for that.
this may shock the hell out of Branden but i think he does an
*excellent* job with the XFree packages.
i may have some disagreements with him on various issues, but i have no
problem at all with the quality or frequency of his work. debian needs
more developers of his caliber. he took on X (an incredibly difficult
set of packages) when everybody else had too much sense to even think
about doing it and has done a fantastic job with it.
there's a lot more to packaging a program than just compiling it and
hoping that it mostly works on your own system. if you want that kind
of "quality-control" then try redhat's contrib packages.
craig
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