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From: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Software Obsolescence
Message-ID: <324@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 4-Apr-87 21:36:26 EST
Article-I.D.: dcl-csva.324
Posted: Sat Apr  4 21:36:26 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 04:07:20 EST
References: <272@unixprt.UUCP> <18@sibelius.intrin.FI>
Reply-To: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
Lines: 34
Keywords: News 2.11 Patch

In article <272@unixprt.UUCP> cody@unixprt.UUCP (Commando Cody) writes:
>P.S. Patch is up to patch level 8, News 2.11 is up to level 5.

Actually, 2.11 is up to patch level 6, although the "History of USENET"
articles still say it is up to patch level 3.  Please do not call it 2.11.6
though, because it is not (according to the "version" control message).

In article <3735@j.cc.purdue.edu> rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP writes:
>Note that rn release 4.3 is at patchlevel 39, and I've had no trouble t'all

Actually, rn has been at patchlevel 40 for several months.  If you are missing
any patches, read the later patches to find out how to get them!

In article <18@sibelius.intrin.FI> pl@sibelius.FI (Petri Launiainen) writes:
>>     there have been numerous patch postings for 2.11 that are not
>>     `official'.

Actually, several of these came from me.  When 2.11 was first issued, I sent an
unofficial patch which I FOUND ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for 2.11 to be usable for
me.  I immediately gave it to Rick Adams for inclusion in patch #1.  It never
was included and, each time a patch for 2.11 was issued, I asked Rick Adams
again to do something about it.  It was only until patch #6 that it was sorted
out.

Now, clearly it is not my fault that I had to create unofficial patches since
for our site, and several others, this patch was essential.  Neither was it the
fault of Rick Adams since he is not paid to work on 2.11.  The only solution to
this problem is to PAY those people that look after software for you.
This is the only way to get any guarantee whatsoever!
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