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On Monday 24 February 2003 14:51, Danny Hallwood wrote: |
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> Cheers Bret, |
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> I was unaware that a ~ signified the package as unstable. |
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> On the same note: |
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> Anybody know why acct has been marked as unstable, Debian class this as |
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> mature and it does not appear to have had code update for 5 years. |
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> I have checked the Gentoo bugzilla and found one entry relating to acct, |
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> this is a request to have it included. |
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For one gentoo is in some state of freeze (not too strict though) for |
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gentoo-1.4, and when packages have just been added they are made unstable |
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first to discover possible problems with the ebuilds and the package code. |
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The code aparently is rather stable, but the ebuild might have problems. |
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That's why it starts life as testing |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv |