Re: Deficiencies in Debian
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 09:45:39PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> We have a freeze date (Nov 1), but we
> apparently don't have anything we're supposed to accomplish in the
> next seven weeks.
This is not true. From the message which set that date
(http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9908/msg00007.html):
If the necessary projects are completed before that date, we can
freeze. (It will probably not happen exactly on that day).
What remains to be done:
- Fix lots of release-critical bugs. We should be down to a number
that can reasonably be fixed with NMUs or package removals in
one week. I'd like to have a bugfixing team standing by for this.
Volunteers?
- Prepare new bootdisks. As far as I know there are still problems
fitting Linux 2.2 and glibc 2.1 on them, and debian-boot needs
help.
- Create a release plan, detailing the steps from freeze to release.
I will take the initiative for that this week.
- Figure out what to do about C++ incompatibilities. I don't
think this issue has been raised yet. Right now it looks
like potato will be completely incompatible with slink for
C++ programs. We can no longer build the slink compatibility
libraries on potato systems.
I don't think much has been done in any of these points.
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