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[First off, fix your reply-to address.]
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Certainly as a longstanding kibitzer on this list, it is none of my business.
> However, I would like nevertheless to point out the following, relevent to
> recent suggestions that the list splinter into two or more offspring:
>
> Over approximately a 12 hour period today, I received debian-user digests
> containing approximately the following balance of postings:
>
> Discussion of debian administrative matters, etc.: 60 posts.
> Help requests, and responses: 44 posts.
>
> The discussions have been lively and interesting, by the way. Flames were
> (needlessly) thrown.
The admin stuff really belonged in debian-devel or debian-policy, no real
need to split the group. Just that a certain person decided to start the
flamewar in this group and it's a little hard to move without the
possibility of being flamed for "trying to conceal the discussion."
> The Debian watchword has been from early on, a system that can be painlessly
> upgraded. At least twice, this watchword has failed---when a.out moved over
> to ELF, and when libc5 moved over to libc6. In between these big changes,
> have been an endless stream of smaller changes.
Well, libc5 to libc6 can be fairly painless, although it does require a
special procedure. However, the procedure is documented in the Mini-HOWTO
which I post here and on debian-devel from time to time. We've done it
better than anyone else, is there another distribution you could upgrade
past a.out without reinstalling? I think we'll have the best libc6
upgrade procedure too, but since we're the only ones with it public, I
really can't tell for sure.
- --
| In order to live freely and happily,
Scott K. Ellis | you must sacrifice boredom.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | It is not always an easy sacrifice.
| -- Illusions
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