[7899] in testers
Re: dvips and outreach
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Mar 10 16:38:22 2009
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:37:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Indeed. I meant to be directing the question about the larger issue
> of how we handle changes in that category, not dvips in particular.
On Linerva, dvips has had the new behavior for a while (in fact, I
often explicitly make sure I'm on Linerva, because I don't want stuff
going to the default printer :-)).
This implies to me that all other sorts of user-visible changes between
Athena and Debian defaults should have been on Linerva for some time now.
In my experience, I'm not aware of any ones that make you very sad; dvips
will do something that is not what you intended but seems safer, for
instance. So this may not be a big issue.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
