On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:55:14AM +0100, John Lines wrote:
> > Linux is almost completely y2k compliant BY DEFAULT. Any y2k issues that
> > haven't been fixed by now will get fixed in SLINK, not just potato. We
> > don't know of any that remain however. If something binary only in
> > non-free breaks, you are on your own unless someone else fixes it.
>
> You don't have to do the publicity bit on -devel. I know that there are no
> problems with the kernel, but year 2000 issues are subtle and crop up in
> many unexpected places - just because the kernel is OK does not mean that
> the whole distribution is OK. (and it is main (or even base) that I am
> concerned about - not non-free)
Well I don't have any base/required packages but I'm sure that all of my
packages _ARE_ y2k compliant. As are all those I've built from source.
This would include lynx, libggi, libgii, popt, procmail, zgv, mutt, ssh,
etc, etc, etc...
> Have a look at http://www.debian.org/y2k/ You will see that most of the
> packages in the base system are marked as 'Unknown'. It would be better for
> Debian if these were checked and marked as OK (or problems found and fixed).
>
> I had a little look at adduser, which was OK, and base-files, which had a
> subtle documentation problem (the GPL says you should write a license with
> 19yy as the date, though this is fixed in the LGPL), which is why it is
> marked OK?
>
> Most of the packages need someone who knows their inner workings, to look
> through them and check them.
How much "inner workings" are there to go through? Does the thing use
dates? If yes, does it display dates with a 4 digit year? Does it keep
dates in traditional timestamp formats? Okay, it's compliant.
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