In article <87h### [at] tc-1-100kawasakigolnejp> , Miles Bader 
<mil### [at] gnuorg>  wrote:

> The quality of packages depends on the package maintainer; for major
> packages (gcc, X, etc), debian's maintainers are second to none.  I have
> no idea what's up with the povray package, but Debian is a free software
> distro, and Povray is _not free software_, so what do you really expect?

In the narrow definition by a small group that monopolises the term "free
software"? - Hardly a any argument for distributing source code and binaries
that are known to be broken!

> So you've never actually used Debian then?

Why would I, if I can easily read in their package list that all packages
they ship as stable is completely outdated?  To hunt for updates for weeks?

> Do you have any actual
> _evidence_ that the gcc problems in this thread have anything to do with
> a Debian patch, or of the systemic problems you accuse them of?

It works on other Linux systems but not on at least this Debian system.

> Every GNU/linux user that I know runs Debian,

Then you clearly do not know many who actually try to use their system on a
day to day basis for serious work.  Everybody I know who used Debian threw
it out years ago because of the package problems.

    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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