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Re: rmail, m-t-a, and uucp



On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:38:48AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>...
> > As far as I know, policy say nothing about the upgrade process
> > between two releases, but notwithstanding we are commited to provide
> > trouble-free upgrade between stable releases.
> 
> 	Sounds like silently splitting a package like that is a bug --
>  in which case, why do we need policy to tell us not to make buggy
>  packages?

In my experience, convincing maintainers that what they are doing is 
wrong is _much_ easier when you are able to show them a section in the 
policy that tells how to do it right...

> 	manoj

cu
Adrian

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