Re: Hurrah for stable 2.1r4 (Was: Hurrah! )
*- On 3 Jan, Vincent Renardias wrote about "Re: Hurrah for stable 2.1r4 (Was: Hurrah! )"
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> On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
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>> I can also add that (almost) all my production Internet servers run
>> 'stable' (because I want them to work, not to have the last gizmos)
>> and that 2.1r4 brilliantly passed Y2K.
>>
>> I'm aware that working on upgrading good ol' stable is not fashionable
>> and even quite boring, and I would like to thanks a lot those who
>> worked on 2.1r4, so we have a stable and safe and Y2K-compliant
>> release.
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> For what it's worth, 2.1r4 still contains several packages with y2k
> problems (emacs20, sendfile, mutt at least).
> Fixed versions for the formers are in dists/slink-proposed-updates and
> I'll uploaded in Incoming/ a fixed version of the later today.
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Add to that slrn(potato version fixes it), pilot-manager(bug #53831
contains 2 line patch from upstream author).
Brian Servis
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