Re: potato late, goals for woody (IMHO)
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 06:51:03AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> My god! it's been over a year since slink was released
> and potato is still frozen. Yes, I agree don't
> release it till all the bugs are gone. However may I
> suggest something. After potato is stable, and the
> 2.4 kernel is out (feature)freeze woody at at once
> with the new kernel and start the release process for
> woody. This will allow Debian to play catch up with
> the rest of the (linux) world.
I disagree. We need several things for woody before release, IMO. Glibc
2.2, gcc3(maybe even with libstdc++3), binutils 2.10, *and* kernel 2.4.
If we freeze woody immediately, only thing we get is an unstable kernel
(since everyone knows the kernels don't settle in till a x.x.5 release or
higher).
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