On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 12:50:56PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > One thing that no-one has pointed out yet is that stable has known y2k > problems in it. Not releasing an update of some kind to fix these problems > before y2k is going to make us look like fools. > > I would like to bring back up the idea of releasing a major update to slink. > I have the majority of the work done, it has been done for months and has > received a fair amount of testing [1]. This would include kernel 2.2.13, y2k > fixes, security fixes, an updated X, and little else. > > If certian parties had not prevented me from doing this several months ago, > we would have released this about 1 month ago, and this delay of the freeze > would not be such a big deal. Please don't make the same mistake again > folks, I'm volenteering to do most of the work, and I work on debian full > time.. I'm with ya, man. I'll be your X bitch. Just tell me where to sign up. (Translation: I'll help you as much as you want if we can put XFree86 3.3.5 in it.) -- G. Branden Robinson | "Why do we have to hide from the police, Debian GNU/Linux | Daddy?" branden@ecn.purdue.edu | "Because we use vi, son. They use cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | emacs."
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