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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@dplanet.ch>:
> > Oops.  I wasn't going to tell anyone this yet, but since you've made
> > this argument I feel I must be up front here....
> > 
> > After CML2 has proven itself in 2.5, I do plan to go back to Marcelo
> > and lobby for him accepting it into 2.4, on the grounds that doing so
> > will simplify his maintainance task no end.  That's why I'm tracking
> > both sides of the fork in the rulebase, so it will be an easy drop-in
> > replacement for Marcelo as well as Linus.
> 
> Don't do it!
> A stable kernel should be stable also on the building tools.

That will be Marcelo's call, not mine.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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the kind of love you can buy --- and spreads even nastier diseases.
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