Re: slink release
Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu> writes:
> Quoting Santiago Vila (sanvila@unex.es):
> > On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Michael Stone wrote:
> > > So, what's keeping slink from shipping this weekend?
> > * Fix all the Severity: important or higher bugs.
> IIRC, there have been discussed fixes for all these outstanding bugs.
> (Excepting dpkg bugs, which have been allowed before--are we going to
> fix them this time or not?) Are the maintainers going to fix them, or is
> it time to do NMU's?
> > * Announce a beta-test in debian-user so that we discover any remaining
> > important bug.
> > * Test for a reasonable amount of time (for example, one week) without
> > introducing any *new* packages[*].
> Ok. A final testing period sounds good. Then the question becomes
> "what's keeping us from finalizing this weekend and shipping next
> weekend?" (I'm quite serious about this; if there's some concrete
> outstanding issue, let's point it out and fix it.)
Right now, at the very least, we are waiting for Anders Hammarquist to
merge the Alpha and Sparc patches to the X server and give them to
Branden. Right now, there is absolutely no sourcecode for the X
packages in the Alpha and Sparc distributions.
Also, Eric Delaunay and I are working on getting the sparc install
images ready. (This is mostly Eric's doing - I'm providing some
testing/debugging help and working on some minor Ultra tweaks.) There
are some minor issues with 2.2.x kernels and the dbootstrap
program (the Ultra requires a 2.[12].x kernel).
Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu
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