Re: News item about ABI change

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:50:50AM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote:
> There is a serious omission in the present Hurd documentation.
> 
> Current tarballs are in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian-staging/ and
> not ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/.  Without further
> checking, people will install old Hurd systems.  Ultimately old
> documentation like this will frustrate the few users who do attempt to
> try the Hurd.

We are still in the transition period.  When we are done, the old
documentation will apply again.  The -staging link should not be documented.

I will move the old tar files out of the way, so people don't try to install
them.
 
> Perhaps this info could go in Neal's guide, but if this is a temporary
> situation it doesn't belong there.

Yes, it is temporary.
 
Thanks,
MArucs

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