Re: The freeze and IMMINENT 2.2.0p1!!

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

Quoting Buddha Buck (bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu):
> > Quoting Avery Pennarun (apenwarr@worldvisions.ca):
> > > Slink is a badly-needed cleanup release.  Don't hold it back for any
> > > package.
> > 
> > What needs to be cleaned up? Hamm's running fine here. Slink definately
> > adds value, but I don't think it's something we desperately need _now_.
> 
> What needs to be cleaned up is our reputation for taking a -long- time 
> between releases.  That is the major (if not -only-) release goal for 
> Slink.  As such, it IS something we desperately need _now_.

I still think that calling slink "a badly needed cleanup" implies that
hamm is horribly broken. I agree that it would be good for debian to
release more frequently, but that's not the same as saying that hamm
doesn't work.

Mike Stone