From: Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@highlab.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:48:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Debian packaging for 0.99.4
Message-ID: <E1E35vU-0004nP-JR@highlab.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508102200560.3295@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> The top man-page I found for GNU interactive tools says:
> 
> 	A Set of Interactive Programs
> 	Edition 2.5, for GIT version 4.3.16
> 	January 1997
> 
> just let it die in peace.


The top of the RCS changelog says:

    Fri Jun 16 06:19:24 1995  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

            Version 5.7 released.
             

Should we let /usr/bin/merge die in peace too?


People still use GNU Interactive Tools.  Not just crazy, stupid people,
and I bet not just Debian people.


-- 
Sebastian Kuzminsky