On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 10:04:11PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Hello, > > I propose that Debian skip slink, and have a freeze of potato soon. > > This comes for several reasons: > > 1. Slink is already seriously obsolete, since it has been frozen for > about as long as we are supposed to go between releases. > > 2. Slink release is some time off, and is complicated by the fact > that most developers now run potato. > > 3. Slink freeze has not (yet) been done properly on some archs. > > If we go with potato, we can: > > 1. Include X 3.3.3 (YAY!) We definately need this, how is that gonna look when we are the only distribution still shipping the old xfree? > 2. Include Linux 2.2.0 (YAY!) (well, maybe.) > If it's out in time, at this rate is still gonna be a few months. 2.2.0pre4 is still really buggy for me. No midi on my sb16 and scsi emulation tends to cause random lockups. > 3. Include current versions of other programs (do I smell Perl5.005?) > We should probably put the new gnome in there too, 0.30 is really old. > And, if we freeze it quickly, it may not be any later than a slink release. > It appears that a slink release is at least a few months off anyway. > > Slink is looking like a big mass of obsolete stuff to me. > Yes, unfortunately it is. -- Stephen Crowley crow@debian.org, stephenc@wf.net -* Finger crow@va.debian.org for my public key. PGP#22714B25 *-
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