Re: Official Debian 2.0 CD master images
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Anthony Fok wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 07:37:00AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
>
> > Right now main+contrib (which *could* be on a CD) won't fit. It overflows by
> > aproximatedly 40 MB. Taking contrib off the first CD cuts ~100 MB... leaving
> > enough room for as many documents as you want. Yesterday while I was on my
> > way home, it occured to me that putting the mailing lists archive could be
> > helpful (or kernel sources, or the web site...) project/ is a no-no (think
> > gettext). indices/ and doc/ is a must.
>
> Actually, I asked the upstream author of gettext (Ulrich Drepper) as to
> whether we could put gettext in main, and he said he doesn't have a problem
> with it because he is not the one who make such decision for Debian.
>
> Seeing that quite a few Debian packages already use gettext for compilation,
> it would be nice that we put gettext in main.
Regardless of the importance of gettext: why should a new package be
accepted into Debian 2.0 when it is already in Deep Freeze? I thought that
when a distribution is in Freeze or even in Deep Freeze, no new packages
are allowed into that distribution.
Remco
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