Re: boot floppies status
Ian Jackson:
> Remember that we still have the following things left to do:
>
> * We need to decide on the FTP site structure and get our mirrors
> sorted out.
It's pretty close to its final form, although we might go through an
en-masse package-file-renaming once we decide on architecture fields
in the filename and other such things. I've been working on the mirrors.
> Someone needs to go through the buglist and identify the critical
> bugs. These bugs must be fixed.
This can happen concurrently with alpha and beta-testing. I think there
are only a few real show-stoppers.
> The installation needs to be tested internally a lot more before we
> go to a beta release of 1.1, and then tested as beta for several
> weeks before we make a release proper.
I'd be very happy if we had an installable alpha-test. I think we could
do that for the cold-install case in a week.
> The shared library / ELF / ld.so / Pre-Depends arrangements need to
> be confirmed and implemented. David, could you let me know what's
> happening so that I can implement it in the ELF dpkg ?
I don't fully understand what the open issues are here.
> I'd like to do some things to dselect's user interface to make it
> easier to do a more selective upgrade, but they're not critical and we
> can certainly make a beta release without it.
Yes. I abandoned some goals like the disk tool for 1.1 . Some things will
have to wait for 1.2 .
Thanks
Bruce
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