On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 06:51:03AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> My god! it's been over a year since slink was released
> and potato is still frozen.
Is anyone else having flashbacks to the hamm release?
Note that
deb http://auric.debian.org/~ajt testing main
should be working fairly nicely now (for all the arches potato's got, and
sources), both in that it should be more or less as bugfree as potato,
and not too far behind woody [0]. So there's a good chance we'll have
automated support for a quicker freeze in future.
You will have to point at potato/woody for contrib, non-free and non-US/*
though.
[1]
Cheers,
aj, shamelessly self-promoting
[0] Although it'll be much much better when sparc, arm and
powerpc(?) point their autobuilders at woody. See
http://auric.debian.org/~ajt/update_excuses.html (>100kB) which
offers excuses for why you're favourite woody package may not have
been added to testing yet. A lot of them are just "foo.deb isn't up
to date on bar" at the moment, thanks to this pesky release thing.
[1] Uninstallability stats by dist and arch:
slink: potato: testing: unstable:
i386 7 i386 5 i386 6 i386 134
m68k 23 sparc 14 sparc 7 powerpc 208
alpha 26 alpha 41 alpha 34 sparc 336
sparc 29 m68k 49 m68k 42 m68k 339
powerpc 67 powerpc 50 hurd-i386 589
arm 89 arm 78 alpha 1953
arm 2824
These stats aren't entirely fair and reasonable by any means (and as
such trying to use `testing's neat stats to improve potato is likely
to do more harm than good at this point), but should hopefully be
indicative of how much better we should be able to do next time.
--
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