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Re: [gpsd-dev] Planning a 3.11 snap release


From: Eric S. Raymond
Subject: Re: [gpsd-dev] Planning a 3.11 snap release
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:41:13 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Greg Troxel <address@hidden>:
> I don't think that's true.  I've packaged quite a few things and
> maintained many more (within pkgsrc), and I can't name another one. 

Gary cited another one correctly; Linux versions of the XML-Docbook
toolchain do this.

> gpsd here seems to have a typical problem of many projects, where it
> views itself as very special, and worthy of deviating from norms.

GPSD is, in cold fact, that special.  It's used in life-critical navigation
and IFF systems.  This justifies extraordinary measures to get something
as basic as the time right.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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