On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 09:15:42 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote:
>: None at all. It is a general Linux question which really isn't
>: specific to Debian at all.
>Not to hack on you for "not reading the thread", but had you done so you
>might have noticed that Miquel van Smoorenburg not only maintains
>qpopper for Debian, but he also implements bugfixes. However, many of
>those bugfixes do not make it upstream to Qualcomm since they have
>chosen to make future versions of qpopper non-free. (FWIW I support
>Mike on this attitude).
Yes, that was in reply when I mentioned the bug. My reply was, and this
will be the third time I have said this in this thread, when I found the bug
I was not using Debian so, obviously, I had no desire, inclination or
knowledge of reporting such a bug to the Debian maintainer of the package.
That is not a hard concept to grasp.
>This _does_ mean that qpopper vs. cucipop (or any other popper) is
>relevant to debian, and is not a general Linux question.
Untrue in this context.
>As you become more familiar with Debian you will notice that quality
>isn't just a buzzword around here, it's the way things are done (most of
>the time, anyway). I'm continually impressed by the quality and
>usability of Debian packages vs. the same software running on different
>distributions or Operating Systems.
Quality is always a buzzword. Debian is one of the nicer distributions
I've run across, but, as with any distribution there are problems with it.
Took me less than an hour to get X running under Slack from the tarballs. I
still can't get X to run under Debian because I'm not quite sure what .debs
to get and using the XF86Config from my working Slack isntall. I'm finding
that the directions in the non-dev installs are sparse, sometimes not
including the man pages. And then someone tells me that man is broken yet I
have the latest version.
There are always problems, so please don't get onto the high horse of
"Quality" when it comes to Debian, just makes it a better target.
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