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Re: State of the Woody



On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Andreas Tille wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Eric van Buggenhaut wrote:
>
> > Are we in such a hurry ? We can wait for the new installer a few more months.
> I think so.  The new apt will allow to install packages from woody into
> stable.  So who cares about the release date.  In my opinion this

You can't install every single package from wody in unstable. E.g. you
must very often upgrade libc6 (the most essential library in the system).

> apt feature will give us some more time to prepare a new release.

What's with the "normal" users that want to buy Debian on a CD or that
want to use a really stable distribution on their production machines?

> Kind regards
>
>         Andreas.

cu,
Adrian

-- 
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
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