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Re: release critical != important (was: Re: Bug#72135: not release critical



On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:18:00PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:56:21AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > 
> > Please, please, please focus your efforts on XFree86 4.x instead of
> > fighting with me.  I have nothing against the Hurd, but 3.3.6 as it exists
> > in potato is dead, dead, dead.  There's no sense applying your patches to
> > it; the deltas are far too large for stable-updates, and the only case (in
> > woody) where the 3.3.6 libraries are built is for libc5-compat versions on
> > i386 Linux.  (If BenC's dreams come true, I'll trash that as well.)
> 
> Is 3.3.6 as dead as that.  I thought it was going to stick around for some
> cards no longer supported by the 4.x crop of drivers.  NV1, for example.

What sense does it make to port these old, old drivers to Hurd?  Marcus's
patches don't address that portion of the source tree anyway.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson             |
Debian GNU/Linux                |   Never attribute to malice that which can
branden@debian.org              |   be adequately explained by stupidity.
http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |

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