Re: Finger daemons in Debian should use a virtual package

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 08:42:42AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > > I can (and will, if allowed) do as many NMUs as necessary to get this done.
> > > Since it should be done in potato, too, I'm sending this to Richard to ask
> > > can I/we upload changed packages in frozen. We have one full week to do it,
> > > which should be enough (these packages aren't large in general, mostly about
> > > 15KB .debs, I think even the m68k build daemon can catch up with these in a
> > > day or two :), and I don't think there is any chance that anything RC would
> > > break because of those two changes in these packages.
> > 
> > This is not a potato issue, it will be done for woody.
> 
> But if it's that easy to implement, and there is someone to do it, why not
> allow it in potato?

Because of its possible impact with the release.  We must not
start things that can move the release even farer away.

Regards,

	Joey

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