Re: Tin 1.5.8 .debs available
Hello!
Eric Schwartz <emschwar@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 07:10:49AM +0000, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> tin t.5.8 is still Beta, isn't it?
> For values of 'beta' that include extremely stable, yes.
I had seen people geting bitten by bugs of earlier 1.5.*-betas,
so I took a conservative approach. But if you think it is extremely
stable I am going to test it soon.
> I know different maintainers have different philosophies about
> whether or not to include officially-marked betas in Debian; my
> feeling was that 1.5.8 is sufficiently stable to merit inclusion.
I think debian should ship the latest stable version in the next
release, if it were foreseeable that tin 1.5 was going to be released
before woody, debian should switch to 1.5 soon, but iandd.
> Furthermore, the fact that it's released now under a BSD license
> means it can go into main; 1.4.4 would still have to be in non-free.
That'd be a big benefit.
[snip]
> That should make it even easier for Paul. :) I did have to do some
> more work to 1.5.8 to bring it up to compliance with current Policy;
> actually, I more or less did a complete repackaging from scratch, using
> Paul's 1.4 package as inspiration. If all he needs to do is re-apply
> the current debian diffs for 1.4.4, then I'm sure he'll get to it soon
> enough. In the meantime, if you can't wait, (and assuming Paul doesn't
> beat me to it :) I'll send you mail when I get around to building .debs.
Thank's, imho it be the simplest if you posted to debian-devel,
probably I am not the only one who'd interested.
thanks, cu andreas
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