Re: glibc tarballs available

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Thursday 20 November 2008 15:10:10 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> (Regarding trust -- If anyone out there IS interested in validating
> >> the tarballs I have created, and provides me with signature files for
> >> them, I'd be happy to put them on the site as Mike suggests. But if
> >> such a person is a glibc maintainer, I really do think that
> >> ftp.gnu.org and its mirrors would be the appropriate place for them.)
> >
> > my point was the wiki.  the wiki is "official", so it should not be
> > pointing to any location that has not been verified without marking the
> > location as such.
>
> The glibc wiki is a community wiki, and is not a source of verified
> information.
>
> Only the glibc website and fsf glibc website contain official information.

it's in the same name space as the official sites URL wise.  that implies to 
the layman that it is official.  while the glibc developers may view it as 
"unofficial", they arent the ones reading it.
-mike

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