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Thursday, January 2nd, 2014

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    1:27a
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 2, 2014
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 2, 2014 is available.
    3:24p
    Thursday's lone security update

    Debian has updated typo3-src (multiple vulnerabilities).

    9:32p
    Raymond: bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move
    Eric S. Raymond has posted a message to emacs-devel suggesting that the project move from Bazaar (bzr) to Git. It is not the first time the idea has come up, but it would seem that Richard Stallman is not opposed to such a move as he has been in the past. Raymond writes:

    The bzr version control system is dying; by most measures it is already moribund. The dev list has flatlined, most of Canonical's in-house projects have abandoned bzr for git, and one of its senior developers has written a remarkably candid assessment of why bzr failed:

    http://www.stationary-traveller.eu/pages/bzr-a-retrospective.html

    I urge all Emacs developers to read this, then sleep on it, then read it again - not least because I think Emacs development has fallen into some of the same traps the author decribes. But *that* is a discussion for another day; the conversation we need to have now is about escaping the gravitational pull of bzr's failure.

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