Re: Stable means not-changing?
Points well taken. Don't know what got into me this morning!
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 schulte@Uni-Wuppertal.DE wrote:
> Hi,
>
> According to Civ Kevin F. Havener:
> >
> > You would think, at least in the case of bash, a bash 2.01 (or whatever)
> > would be compiled against libc5 and put in the bo-updates tree. This
> > orphaning of the 1.3 tree sorta ticks me off. Since the kernel fiasco
> > (2.0.30) had already occurred for the very same reason, and since we've
> > gone through the new version naming upheaval to accomodate CD
> > manufacturers and otherwise promote commercialization of the
> > distribution, it's disheartening to see the mad rush to release debian
> > 2.0. It seems to me they ought to try to wait for 2.0 until Linus thinks a
> > 2.2.x kernel is ready. (Of course, since I don't follow the kernel
> > development, the debian developers probably know something I don't.) I see
> > a real possibility that the stable Debian distribution is going to be
> > quite unstable in the coming year+, so I'd like a rock solid 1.3 point of
> > departure.
>
> Why not not installing libc6 coexisting with libc5, as described by Scott
> Ellis´ Mini-Howto which is weekly (?) posted on this list. It proved to
> be painless for me and has bash-2.01. It is a rather small step, making
> my system in no way "unstable".
>
> I can understand the developers, that - once they decided to make the
> big move to libc6 - see no possibilty to maintain two versions of the same
> package. This has nothing to with "commercialization" or a "mad rush".
> Are you a volunteer? If not, then please be a little more calm...
>
> Bye kws
>
> P.S. Is it safe to install slang0.99.38_0.99.38-2.6.deb from hamm
> coexisting with the libc5 version? Is slang0.99.34_0.99.38-2.6.deb (from
> hamm) still libc5? It should be mentioned in the Mini-Howto.
>
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