Hurd should be released (Was: Re: HURD/Linux/BSD* ... Loosing focus.)

["Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>]

At Tue, 21 May 2002 16:00:50 +0200,
Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Subsequent releases where not done, because between having the Hurd code in
> CVS and the binary snaphots in Debian, there was little need to rubberstamp
> a particular version as 0.3 or whatever.

From Hurd's point of view, that's true. But it is really bad for third
parties when referring to any particular implementation of the Hurd. I
don't say that Hurd should be released often. That's required when a
big user-visible change is made.

Here is an example of what could happen if no release is made so long:

http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-grub%40gnu.org/msg05548.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=145673&repeatmerged=yes

I'm sorry that my response is off-topic, but I cannot help saying
this, because Robert or Alfred didn't seem to try to fix the root
cause.

Thanks,
Okuji


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