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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 1995 19:07:15 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
Cc:        CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-user@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/compat20 libgcc.so.261.0.uu
Message-ID:  <199503140207.TAA04340@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> "Re: cvs commit: src/release/compat20 libgcc.so.261.0.uu" (Mar 13,  5:45pm)

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> I doubt the GNU people would be that anal retentive, since we already
> published the sources for the 2.0-RELEASE on the net...

Uhh, you are wrong about that one.  They are *very* anal and retentive
about it since they want *everyone* to be able to get the exact source
that created the binaries.  The Minix folks find this out when Bruce
made the 1.X binaries available for minix-386 and the archive sites only
kept the binaries and the diffs.  The GNU folks said they were required
to keep the sources online as well even though the sources could be gotten
from other sites.  The reasoning was the other sites would delete the
old sources when the new versions came on line (similar to us deleting 2.0
when 2.1 comes on line).

Those folks who get a 2.1 CD will not have the sources for libgcc.so.262.0
at their beck and call.


Nate



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