Release 2.12
Christopher C. Chimelis
chris@debian.org
Thu Oct 25 05:09:00 GMT 2001
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Yes, that part. And it's certainly not "most". Consider:
> - Debian uses them. That's Chris C.'s decision, and seems to be a
> reasonable one, overall.
I evaluate both the FSF releases and H.J.'s, no matter what. Mostly, I
use H.J.'s for two reasons: includes the hooks for Compaq demangler
support for their compiler releases for Alpha-Linux and also because
H.J.'s usually include newer fixes from CVS for platforms that Debian has
ports for (such as IA-64, HPPA, and MIPS{el}).
> Because critical bugs are found in the released versions and not fixed.
> GNU Libc, for instance, has an unpleasant habit of depending on
> binutils not-yet-released. The patches don't tend to be easily
> back-portable for those without a history of binutils experience. If
> we want to make new programs work, we need to move forward fairly
> frequently, and HJ offers the only way to do that.
Agreed on all points.
C
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