Re: debian 2.1r3 needed and release team coordination
Adam Di Carlo writes:
[ some sensible stuff in general. Comments on specific bits below ]
>IMHO, we should be thinking about Debian 2.1r3. This is what I think
>needs to be in Debian 2.1r3 and why we need it:
2.1r_3_??? Have I missed something?
> * utterly broken packages and things should be fixed -- jadetex is
> broken (jadetex for which I shall NMU for stable soon); there are
> a number of things for Debian/sparc that I know of that are broken
> (setserial which hardcodes IRQs, permissions on /dev/fd* are
> wrong, /dev/mouse doesn't exist)
> Rationale: we're probably talking about < 10 packages where we
> need to identify the problems and fix them; no new upstream
> sources required here AFAIK)
OK, sounds fine.
> * kernel-image 2.0.36 on i386 has very broken Adaptec (namely,
> AIC7xxx) support
> Rationale: boot-floppies is getting flooded with bug reports about
> this
Hmmm. I've yet to see an aic7xxx release that works for everybody - why
do Adaptec have to be so crap about hardware specs?
> * we're ready with boot-floppies for Croatian and French versions; I
> bet slink-cd isn't yet ready, but even so it would be nice to
> release these
slink-cd isn't ready? If you don't think so, then let me know what's
missing _now_ before I go off to the US at the weekend.
> Rationale: try to start momentum for multi-lingual Debian, which
> is a major goal of potato, IMHO
>
>What I'd like to do is first of all, get consensus on whether we need
>a point release of slink, and what needs to be in it. My stuff above
>is a starting point.
>
>Then we'll need to file the bugs, get them fixed (thru hook, crook, or
>NMU), and then coordinate the archive mgmt, the boot-floppies, and the
>cd team. I suggest we use the debian-testing list as a shared forum
>for now.
Fine, seems as good a place as any IMHO.
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