Previously Joseph Carter wrote: > It forces us to make sure that if we make such changes that we can have a > hybrid libc5/libc6 system. I am not so sure if I agree with that. Developing on a mixed libc5/libc6 system probably showed us a lot of the issues involved. If we had moved to a unstable libc6 very fast and pushed finished libc6 things into a slowly libc6-ifying stable we would probably has missed a couple of things. > It kinda makes the developer decide their package is ready enough for > release rather than having to decide it's not. He can do that now as well by filing a bugreport for ftp.debian.org. The only thing you change is that now a package is released automatically, and with this proposal a maintainer needs to do it manually. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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