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Re: Preparing for first test cycle



On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 08:13:08AM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > 
> > Date:    Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:54:52 +0200
> > To:      Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>
> > cc:      Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>, debian-release@lists.debian.org
> > From:    Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>
> > Subject: Re: Preparing for first test cycle
> > 
> > Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
> > > No.  Any such change means aborting the test cycle.  This may be reasonable
> > > if a security problem is big enough, but I'm not going to decide that in
> > > advance.
> > 
> > I'm certainly very much against releasing with known security holes.
> > At this moment we already have to do 2.2.15+1patch :(
> 

I think we need to get a kernel-source-2.2.15 package in right now, even
if it means that it is actually a 2.2.15-pre19 (the latest pre). This way
we can start building images, and have boot-floppies using it. I'm very
sure it will release before we do.

Herbert, is this possible for you?

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