Re: potato late, goals for woody (IMHO)
Very true. Why not just admit that woody will NOT be
a quantum leap over potato and settle for a 'quantum
hop'?
I think debian should try to release more often with
smaller goals. What I sometimes do is to upgrade
packages that I use from source if I really need the
latest and a .deb does not exist. True I can grab a
package from unstable, but many times unstable is
already using a newer libc or something and I DON'T
WANT to upgrade to the latest libs and risk breaking
everything else. We need a side directory with
"unstable" versions of newer packages for the current
"stable" release.
--- Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> > > My god! it's been over a year since slink was
> released
> > > and potato is still frozen. Yes, I agree don't
> > > release it till all the bugs are gone. However
> may I
> > > suggest something. After potato is stable, and
> the
> > > 2.4 kernel is out (feature)freeze woody at at
> once
> > > with the new kernel and start the release
> process for
> > > woody. This will allow Debian to play catch up
> with
> > > the rest of the (linux) world.
> >
> > I disagree. We need several things for woody
> before release, IMO. Glibc
> > 2.2, gcc3(maybe even with libstdc++3), binutils
> 2.10, *and* kernel 2.4.
> >...
>
> I disagree: IMHO it's enough if there are (besides
> many other upgraded and
> new packages) kernel 2.4, perl-5.6 and XFree86 4.0 .
> Especially to wait
> for gcc 3.0 is dangerous:
>
> 1. there's still some time till it will be released
> 2. gcc is extremly central at Debian and a new
> version won't be without
> bugs
>
> potato has nearly no new packages since january. If
> woody will be frozen
> one or two months after potato is released there's a
> change to release
> woody less then one year after the freeze of potato.
>
> Yust my 0.02,
> Adrian
>
> --
> A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and
> greater than a
> "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to
> avoid trouble.
> -- Mahatma Ghandi
>
>
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