Re: 2.2r3 preparation
Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> I suspect we won't make the end of Jan, but we may as well try for it.
Yeah, my point. I need to move on really soon to woody, personally.
> Anyone have any worthwhile opinions on how 2.2r3 and 2.4.0 should get
> along? There already seems to be an iptables package and adding a new
> devfsd package would have little chance of breaking any existing installs
> (assuming they don't install it). modutils is out of date, though. It
> might be worth considering making a modutils-2.4 package, which would
> work in most cases, and run little risk of breaking anyone's system.
>
> Of course, there's no way we're going to support 2.4.x in potato much
> better than we supported 2.2.x in slink, but including stuff for it
> on CDs in extra doesn't strike me as unreasonable. I'm prepared to be
> shouted down, of course.
I dunno. I guess I wouldn't bother unless there some somewhat
dedicated core of folks willing to test and pretty much build up a
distro "add-on" which adds support for this. Then, if that works, it
could be moved into Potato on a point release pretty easily.
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