Re: Patch for server-name and server-file

Peter J Ross <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 21 August 2008 15:07:45 Jörg Sommer wrote:

<useful information snipped, here and later>

> John, please, can you add the SGML file to the source? Otherwise I have
> to remove the manual, because the text file is not ‘the prefered form for
> modifications.’

The SGML files are in a separate svn repository. I see no need for them to be 
in the slrn svn repository too.

<https://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=4526>

The licence is Debian-compatible.

> You know, we Debian guys are a little bit strange. ;-) 

I didn't grow my second head until I first tried to install Potato. :-)

> > 4. Can 0.9.9 be sneaked into the Debian Etch release?
>
> Etch? No. Etch was released long time ago. I think you mean Lenny, the
> upcomming release.

Yes, I do.

> I don't know if it's possible to get 0.9.9 into Lenny. 
> The archive is frozen. But I would create a special version with only the
> bug fixes based on the current version in Lenny (0.9.9~pre111-1) and
> would ask for an exception.

Alternatively, apply the latest updates as Debian-specific patches. 
0.9.9~pre111-2?

It will be a shame if new Debian Stable users get an inferior slrn package.

-- 
PJR :-)

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