On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:17:12AM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: > I've always been of the oppinion that we should drop emacs19 and when > emacs21 is released we should used that instead of emacs20. People > needing the old versions is free to do a "echo emacs hold| dpkg > --set-selections". No, they aren't. New computers and hard drive crashes happen, and then you lose the old version. If there is a number of people using the old version prefentially to a new version, there's no reason not to support that old version just like you would any other program, provided the maintainer is also willing to be upstream. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg
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