I didn't mean to imply that it was going to hold up release. It just seems that there isn't an absolute need to release for all platforms at the same time. Dave Bristel On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Matt Porter wrote: > Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 16:59:49 -0700 > From: Matt Porter <mmporter@home.com> > To: David Bristel <targon@targonia.com> > Cc: Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: FREEZE RESCHEDULED > > On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 02:40:47PM -0800, David Bristel wrote: > > On this issue, couldn't re release Debian 2.2 for PowerPC after x86? We > > shouldn't need to hold back the release of any one platform because another > > isn't ready yet. This WOULD cause some confusion, but there have been major lib > > differences between platforms before. From what I remember, the Sparc dist was > > up at glibc 2.0 well before x86 was. > > PowerPC is NOT holding up potato. There have only recently appeared some > x86 boot-floppies developers in the effort. All previous work on the > new boot-floppies was done by porters (including generic fixes for potato > and 2.2 kernels). > > The delay is caused by the introduction of a new upstream busybox, the > commitment to include dhcp and ftp/http install support, and the new > task installation scheme. Hardly reason to punish the more or less > complete PowerPC port which has had test potato boot-floppies images > available long before x86 ever has. > > Any new x86-only release based on the old boot-floppies should NOT be 2.2 > but rather Joey's proposed major slink update. > > -- > Matt Porter > mmporter@home.com > This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. >
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