Re: stability of non-free?
joost witteveen wrote:
:
: A lot of users seem to think packages in non-free are more stable
: than packages in unstable.
...
: How are the views from the other people in the debian team?
: Should packages in non-free be somehow more stable than
: the ones in unstable? And if so, how are the maintainers
: of non-free packages to ensure this?
For a long time now I wonder why contrib and non-free are out of stable
and unstable. Shouldn't the structure be somewhat reorganized have
somewhat _like_:
stable ---+---- free (or supported, or ...)
+---- contrib
+---- non-free
unstable -+---- free
+---- contrib
+---- non-free
Heiko
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From: Juergen Menden <menden@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
To: Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De>
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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Helmut Geyer wrote:
>
> teTeX is the system available for most platforms, i.e. it works on nearly any
> Unix machine out there and has been selected as the favoured binar
> distribution of TeX/LaTeX by the CTAN maintainers.
think about us poor non-intel debianists and choose teTeX... :-))
> It is very easy to install,
> but provides only the basics of LaTeX
this actually _is_ very good. add-on packages should remain for the
people who need it.
> This makes NTeX much harder to port to
> debian format
and probably to m68k or alpha as well
> NTeX has one major adavntage, it includes XeT--TeX (for left to right
> languages),
which in fact is a small change to the web-sources of tex. this
can easyly be done in the debian revisions diff file.
> JTeX (japanese support)and support for Klingon,
would be nice if we find some native speakers of these
languages, might be difficult for the klingons :-)
jjm
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