Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree
At 01:07 -0500 1998-04-17, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>Hi,
>>>"Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
>Marcus> Is gettext so unstable? I doubt it.
>
> Dpes not matter. We should be respecting the upstream authors
> wishes. Already Debian has the reputation of not forwarding bugs
> upstream; I do not want to add to that a report that we flagrantly
> ignore express requests by the authours.
[snip]
>
> When it is ready. Early shipping is a major source of
> potential mebarrasement, and may alienate users. If the authors
> themselves consider it unfit for general consumtion, are we not being
> presumtuous in saying we know the software better than the authors?
I find it odd that the GNU ftp site and mirrors thereof are not considered
"wide distribution" by gettext's author.
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext-0.10.tar.gz>
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