Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:23:43AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 11:54:05AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > In both these examples the "cludge" only hangs around for a while, while
> > > the epoch gets stuck on the version forever.
> >
> > Is it really that bad? You said you don't want the clutter of it but
> > I can't really see how there is much clutter. I find Santiago's
> > suggestion of a manual upgrade absurd.
>
> It may be true that forcing our users to upgrade by hand one day before
> the beta release day, once that hamm is in "deep freeze mode", and once
> that lots of people have already installed hamm is a great inconvenience
> for many of them and a bad idea, but it would not be the first time we
> tell our users to upgrade a package "by hand" (remember the upgrade from
> Debian 1.2 to 1.3?). So the issue about being "absurd" or not would be
> relative, not absolute.
Actually I don't remember that upgrade, although I have performed it
a few times (but not in a year or more). However in this case
it would only be for aesthetic reasons, which I don't think is good
enough. Fortunately 2.0.7r seems to be a good enough solution.
Hamish
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