Re: RC-bugs, horizons and all that...
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Richard Braakman wrote:
[...]
> > The suggestion is therefore for a future release manager to actually
> > remove *any* package that has had a release-critical bug for more than
> > three months, even if that package is called glibc. No, I am not talking
> > about the frozen dist but about the unstable dist. This way we also
> > encourage NMUs from people who get into dependency problems and such.
>
> Currently we don't have any packages in potato that would have been
> removed under this rule.
Hmm, interesting. In this case, just forget the suggestion. In any case,
something ought to be done, but what? I can't install potato on the large
range of machines here and people involved with Debian already start
telling me about how wonderful Woody works on their laptop. The situation
is exasperating.
Regards
-rbk.
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Richard Kreckel
<Richard.Kreckel@Uni-Mainz.DE>
<http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~kreckel/>
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