Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > XFree86 3.3.3 hasn't been Debianized by me (the X maintainer) yet. I gave > my blessing to anyone who wanted to try it and upload it to experimental, > > [...] > > Slink will ship XFree86 3.3.2.3. Once I'm done hammering the bugs out of > that, I w

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > I am converting from RedHat to Debian and in the main am pleased with > Debian. One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles > updated packages. Normally, updated packages go into "unstable", which is a sort of "work-in-progress area". Every now and then, unstable gets

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 07:22:26AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > (FWIW, XFree 3.3.3 is in slink.) No, it isn't. XFree86 3.3.3 hasn't been Debianized by me (the X maintainer) yet. I gave my blessing to anyone who wanted to try it and upload it to experimental, as long as they put "DON'T REPORT BU

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-11 Thread Randy Edwards
> One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles updated > packages. For example XFree86 3.3.3 is out now, will this eventually be > integrated into the 2.0 release or are the packages in this release frozen > except for bug fixes? Hamm (Debian 2.0) is presently "stable" it will

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 16:38:10 +, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > I am converting from RedHat to Debian and in the main am pleased with > Debian. One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles > updated packages. > For example XFree86 3.3.3 is out now, will this eventually be integrat