Points well taken. Don't know what got into me this morning! On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, > > According to Civ Kevin F. Havener: > > > > You would think, at least in the case of bash, a bash 2.01 (or whatever) > > would be compiled against libc5 and put in the bo-updates tree. This > > orphaning of the 1.3 tree sorta ticks me off. Since the kernel fiasco > > (2.0.30) had already occurred for the very same reason, and since we've > > gone through the new version naming upheaval to accomodate CD > > manufacturers and otherwise promote commercialization of the > > distribution, it's disheartening to see the mad rush to release debian > > 2.0. It seems to me they ought to try to wait for 2.0 until Linus thinks a > > 2.2.x kernel is ready. (Of course, since I don't follow the kernel > > development, the debian developers probably know something I don't.) I see > > a real possibility that the stable Debian distribution is going to be > > quite unstable in the coming year+, so I'd like a rock solid 1.3 point of > > departure. > > Why not not installing libc6 coexisting with libc5, as described by Scott > Ellis´ Mini-Howto which is weekly (?) posted on this list. It proved to > be painless for me and has bash-2.01. It is a rather small step, making > my system in no way "unstable". > > I can understand the developers, that - once they decided to make the > big move to libc6 - see no possibilty to maintain two versions of the same > package. This has nothing to with "commercialization" or a "mad rush". > Are you a volunteer? If not, then please be a little more calm... > > Bye kws > > P.S. Is it safe to install slang0.99.38_0.99.38-2.6.deb from hamm > coexisting with the libc5 version? Is slang0.99.34_0.99.38-2.6.deb (from > hamm) still libc5? It should be mentioned in the Mini-Howto. > > -- > O##O O##O O##O O##O > ==The famous "Schwebebahn"====AA==suspension==AA=======AA===railway===AA==== > Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte AA AA AA AA > Bergische Univ.-GH/HRZ ,__AA______________AA_______AA_____________AA___. > Gaussstr. 20 | || || || |X| |X| || || || | > D-42097 Wuppertal | || || || |X| |X| || || || | > Tel 0202/4392807,Fax -2910 |_|| ||___________|| |X|_|X| ||___________|| ||_| > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | |X X| | | | | > `==+=+=============+=+X===X+=+=============+=+==' > > > > > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
