On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:23:43AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 11:54:05AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > In both these examples the "cludge" only hangs around for a while, while > > > the epoch gets stuck on the version forever. > > > > Is it really that bad? You said you don't want the clutter of it but > > I can't really see how there is much clutter. I find Santiago's > > suggestion of a manual upgrade absurd. > > It may be true that forcing our users to upgrade by hand one day before > the beta release day, once that hamm is in "deep freeze mode", and once > that lots of people have already installed hamm is a great inconvenience > for many of them and a bad idea, but it would not be the first time we > tell our users to upgrade a package "by hand" (remember the upgrade from > Debian 1.2 to 1.3?). So the issue about being "absurd" or not would be > relative, not absolute.
Actually I don't remember that upgrade, although I have performed it a few times (but not in a year or more). However in this case it would only be for aesthetic reasons, which I don't think is good enough. Fortunately 2.0.7r seems to be a good enough solution. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
