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Re: make and backslash-newline's
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Paul D. Smith |
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Re: make and backslash-newline's |
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Mon, 2 Jan 2006 23:53:08 -0500 |
%% "Alfred M\. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:
ps> It's not clear to me what the problem is with having a late beta
ps> of GNU make installed into Debian unstable. If these changes are
ps> going to be in the next release would it really have made much
ps> difference to wait for that?
ams> The problem is that you don't get the chance to read the NEWS
ams> file. :( Often when you update Debian, you get a bazillion
ams> packages to update, and simply don't have the time to read
ams> through all the new blurbs. If 3.81 had been released, I
ams> atleast, would have read the NEWS file that you'd post to
ams> info-gnu (and I would have sent a bug report if you didn't :-);
ams> and would have noticed such a change.
Well, for you that's true since you read info-gnu as well. I expect
that this applies to an extremely small minority of Debian users though.
Cheers!
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