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Date:	Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:41:02 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: FIGlet (again)
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:52:12PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>But Robert is right -- it's new, it's (relatively) untested; it needs to
>be a test release.  Let's not talk about the restructured auto*
>packages...

But when have we ever done this?  AFAICT, there isn't a single package in
latest/contrib which has a 'test' designation and we've had a few
new packages in the last month.

I can't imagine how it would benefit the user or the contributor to make
figlet harder to install than normal.

cgf

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