Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-15 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Hudon) wrote on 14.06.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Jun 13, Sam Ockman wrote > > Okay, so say some random person who has installed Debian wants XEmacs > > 19.15 because he needs some feature. This seems like a reasonable > > request... He could get it from the Ham

Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-15 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 13, Sam Ockman wrote > Okay, so say some random person who has installed Debian wants XEmacs 19.15 > because he needs some feature. This seems like a reasonable request... He > could get it from the Hamm distribution, except that would mean he'd need > libc6...and he doesn't want to do tha

Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-14 Thread Mark Baker
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The most solid ground not to switch to libc6 is not instability from the > user's point of view (may be libc6 is not that bad), but from the point of > view of developer who's using different kind of commercial d

Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-14 Thread Buddha Buck
> Okay, so say some random person who has installed Debian wants XEmacs 19.15 > because he needs some feature. This seems like a reasonable request... He > could get it from the Hamm distribution, except that would mean he'd need > libc6...and he doesn't want to do that, because he's heard that i

Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
> Okay, I know that before 1.3 was released, for a long time period the only > changes that were being accepted were updates that fixed bugs. Updates that > only provided new features were not allowed. > > Now that 1.3 has "shipped", are updates allowed to replace old packages, or > are replacmen

Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-14 Thread Sam Ockman
Okay, so say some random person who has installed Debian wants XEmacs 19.15 because he needs some feature. This seems like a reasonable request... He could get it from the Hamm distribution, except that would mean he'd need libc6...and he doesn't want to do that, because he's heard that it will a

Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-14 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Okay, so say some random person who has installed Debian wants XEmacs 19.15 > because he needs some feature. This seems like a reasonable request... He > could get it from the Hamm distribution, except that would mean he'd need > libc6...and he doesn't want to do that, because he's heard that i