On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 06:40:08PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > The images at http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/netinst/alpha/ > > are built daily at should be quite usable. (The ones not in the sid > > directory are built daily but are NOT usable, because there's a nice > > catch-22 with "only packages for beta2 will be pushed into testing", > > "only architectures that have good install reports can be considered for > > beta status", and "ISOs built from sarge are unusable because they only > > include udebs from testing". ;) > Let me break that catch-22 right now: I have no problem with moving any > packages into sarge for architectures that have not yet released for > beta2, if the package is architecture dependent. Architecture > independant packages effect for all architectures, so have the > potential to break them, so must be updated in sarge with more caution. This works well for aboot-installer, which is alpha-specific and is probably ready to move into testing at this time; but based on tester feedback, the other package that's been updated is <cough> linux-kernel-di, in the hopes that 2.4.24 supports a wider range of hardware than 2.4.22 did (and this seems to be the case). Your thoughts? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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