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Re: Upcoming Debian Releases



> > ***  Neither shadow passwords nor X3.2 will be in this release.  They     ***
> > ***  were not finished in time.                                           ***
> 
> I thought we had concluded that the best way to deal with the Xt
> buffer overrun problem would be to push X 3.2 into rex.

I am aware of no such conclusion.  Nobody filed a critical bug about it.


> I don't know whether we want to have a longer codefreeze for this, but
> we _do_ need to do something about it - we should not release with an
> unfixed Xt buffer overrun bug.

The release was announced 6 weeks ago and Rex has been frozen for 4 weeks.
If the problem could not be solved in that amount of time, it will not
be fixed in the near future.

Possible options:
 - Remove Xt from Rex
 - Replace Xt in Rex with the one from Buzz
 - Provide info about this problem, suggest upgrading from Bo
 - Release as is, incroporate patch into Rex-fixed when available

I suggest the last, if it is important enough.

No release will ever be perfect.  There will always be "one more thing"
that should be done.  I cannot see how this problem is any more serious
that people still having problems such as gzip/compress links because the
last release was so long ago.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )
                                             
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