Re: Simple policy question...
> Okay, so say some random person who has installed Debian wants XEmacs 19.15
> because he needs some feature. This seems like a reasonable request... He
> could get it from the Hamm distribution, except that would mean he'd need
> libc6...and he doesn't want to do that, because he's heard that it will
> affect the stability of his system.
Then that person needs to be corrected. I don't know if libc6 will
affect the stability of his system, but I do know that xemacs19 (the
xemacs package in hamm currently) doesn't rely on libc6, but rather is
still libc5.
I also know that installing libc6 will only affect programs that use
libc6, not ones that use libc5. I currently have libc4, libc5, and
libc6 installed on my system. I run programs that are compiled for all
three libraries. So far, no problems that can be traced to libc6.
What I would do, if I were he, is go into dselect, put everything on
hold, point dselect at hamm, flag xemacs19 for install, then look at
the dependancy conflicts dselect complains about. If he wants
xemacs19, then he can mark for install or upgrade any packages from
hamm that xemacs19 requires. I don't know if there are any, since
xemacs19 is compiled against libc5, xlib6 (3.2), ncurses3.0, xpm4.7,
zlib1, libjpeg6a, libdb1, libgdbm1, libpng1, all of which are, as far
as I know, available in 1.2.
>
> What then can he do besides compile it himself? If the answer is only
> compile it himself...is there a way we can add a special update directory
> for 1.3, that will have later versions of programs, and people can
> optionally tell dselect to look there?
I don't know what you mean here...
>
> Or am I missing a big part of the picture?
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
> Message from joost witteveen (joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl) on 6-13-97:
> > > Okay, I know that before 1.3 was released, for a long time period the only
> > > changes that were being accepted were updates that fixed bugs. Updates that
> > > only provided new features were not allowed.
> > >
> > > Now that 1.3 has "shipped", are updates allowed to replace old packages, or
> > > are replacment packages still only allowed that fix specific bugs? (In
> > > particular I'm wondering whether we will see Xemacs 19-15 and XFree 3.3 in
> > > 1.3.)
> >
> > Situation of 1.3 is still more-or-less unchaged: only really serious
> > bugfixes can go in 1.3.1, after (we have been promised) two weeks
> > of testing.
> >
> > XFree 3.3 has important security fixes, and there seems to be no other
> > way to close the security holes currently in debian 1.3.0 than to include
> > Xfree 3.3, so there is a chance that will be included. I'm much less
> > sure about XEmacs 19.15 though, although I believe it also does fix
> > stuff.
>
>
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