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Re: making a 2.95.4 release
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:21:16PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 18:18, David O'Brien wrote:
> > Does Red Hat and glibc carry more stock than Debian, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
> > OpenBSD combined?
>
> To be fair, from Debian's point of view a 2.95.4 release would make
> virtually no practical difference. The source tarball we currently use
> is essentially a snapshot from the top of the 2.95 branch in CVS, and we
> apply a whole pile of Debian-specific patches anyway, so it makes no
> real odds to us whether it's annointed as an FSF release or not.
Debian should probably not be calling its GCC "2.95.4" as that confuses
things as Red Hat's "2.96" did. Having an offical 2.95.4 release would
legitimize the version of Debian GCC.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)