Re: Solutions to procps and 1.3.xx queries is needed! READ!

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@smurf.noris.de)
Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:04:22 +0100

In linux.dev.kernel, article <316B718E.773C@metrica.co.uk>,
Nick Randell <nick@metrica.co.uk> writes:
> [...] With all the=20
> development going on it is sometimes difficult to know if you are
> using the most up to date version.=20

I'd hope that the maintainers of these packages will send Linus appropr=
iate
patches if they update things. (It's happened in the past. ;-)

IMHO, a good place for such a list would be an additional field in the
MAINTAINERS file which would list the URL(s) of the software you need t=
o
use the module in question, and the minimum version (if not encoded int=
o
the URL).

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