Re: Preparing the Release / Freezing potato
Martin Schulze wrote:
> . Our boot-floppies are not ready yet. Freezing the distribution
> without working boot-floppies will extend the freeze time which
> would be a very bad idea. Adam di Carlo today told me that he
> doesn't believe that our boot-floppies will be read before
> January. (Since I haven't been able to work on them I can't say
> anything about that.)
We've already done successful (nfs!) installs with the potato boot floppies,
though there are of course glitches.
> . I still haven't seen an announcement what to do with the FHS
> transition
This is going to be in the next version of policy, which Julian Gilbey is
working on now. It simply includes the Tech Ctte's decision.
> Therefore I propose to postpone the freeze (and the release) for at
> least two months, hoping to get the FHS issue, Incoming and
> boot-floppies resolved.
I would much rather go to a slushy freeze now and make it a more solid
freeze when some of these issues have had time to be worked on more.
Delaying the freeze is just going to let other issues develop.
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