Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January 7, 2000
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Masayuki Hatta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm the one who submitted Bug#47658. I still believe it's release-critical.
>
> From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January 7, 2000
> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 22:52:56 +1100
>
> hamish> On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:52:09PM +0300, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:
> hamish> > I think that all we have to do is to package libc6 version instead of libc5.
> hamish> But it appears that the libc5 binaries are the solution to the terrible
> hamish> instability problems that we've had in the past.
>
> Yes, as I wrote I know(and knew) the libc5 version is more stable than
> the libc6 one in some aspects, so I suggested our providing both of them.
> Please let people choose.
>
> For us Japanese, using the libc5 version is something like using damned
> keyboards, no keys on it. We can't use our own language on Navigator for
> searching on the Web or submitting comments or whatever. It's just terrible.
> w3m or lynx is great, but there are a bunch of stupid webpages
> which insists on our using JavaScript ;-) So they can't be
> complete alternatives.
>
Yes.
I don't think anyone is doubting you.
We are simply awaiting a response from the maintainer.
Jules
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