[plans for etc/PACKAGES?] Re: [PATCH 21.4] Fix xetla description

[Ben Wing]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>>>>>>"vin" == Vin Shelton <acs at alumni.princeton.edu> writes:
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>    vin> For 21.4, I intend to continue to support etc/PACKAGES.
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>I think that's best.
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>    vin> I have not yet looked at the issues of whether one FAQ still
>    vin> fits all.  I very much liked it when that was the case.
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>Well, right now I don't see a good reason not to use the 21.5 FAQ.
>Ben hasn't removed anything relevant to 21.4 that I could see.  But
>once Unicode internal comes in, the FAQ is pretty sure to pick up a
>lot of stuff that is not relevant to 21.4, and diverge in that sense.
>  
>
i strongly believe that there should be only one FAQ.  in the stuff i've 
written, i've tried to identify things that differ between 21.4 and 
21.5, although i may have messed some things up.  if you're concerned 
about divergence, then we should just come up with a clearer way of 
distinguishing stuff relevant to only one version (e.g. a [21.4] or 
[21.5] tag in the subject).

adrian, you may be right that there should be a stub in etc/PACKAGES 
rather than its removal; i'm just concerned about having lots of such 
stubs all over the place.

ben