re:stable vs unstable
>After reading a post for netscape.deb being added to the debian packages
>I thought I would get it and clean up my netscape files. However, it wasn't
>in the stable directory, but instead in the unstable. I'm curious as to
>what the philosophy is as to where packages are put.
It is my understanding that "stable" is not supposed to have new packages
added to it.
>I am leary about taking things out of the unstable directory as I am not
>prepared to deal with ELF yet. Soooo, what about us slowpokes that are still
>using only a.out? Does stable only contain "frozen" packages? Would the stable
>directory be more aptly called "static"?
You can safely pick up netscape*.deb from anywhere since it has no actual
code anywhere in it. However, I have an ELF system and cannot test the
netscape binary on a 0.93 system. "file" says: (whatever it means)
callandor:569 - ~/build/netscape-2.0> file `which netscape`
/usr/bin/X11/netscape: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC) - stripped
As for v1.1, I have always found it to be very stable. It's just not
as well tested, yet.
Brian
( bcwhite@bnr.ca )
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