On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:50:50PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> * Revamped "task" selection make it easier to specify what to use your
> new Debian system for.
> * debconf [ probably not used widly enough to be announced yet though ]
> * A new logo.
> * Count up number of packges that have been updated upstream.
> * More streamlined install process, featuring improved network install
> capabilities.
Using DWN back issues as a source of inspiration:
Features:
* apt-get source works, and there's a --build/--compile option
* FHS compliance/compatability
New stuff:
* gpg!
* openssh!
* perl 5.005 (used to be 5.0004)
* X 3.3.6 (used to be 3.3.2)
* gtk 1.2.7 (used to be 1.1.2)
* gcc 2.95.2 (used to be 2.7.2.3)
What else? non-US has been split into main/contrib/non-free, and there are
official CDs with non-US stuff on them now.
For a perspective on the growth, all of slink (all architectures, and
sources) took up ten CDs, all of potato takes up 21 (six archs and source,
three CDs each).
Twenty-five packages seem to have moved from non-free (in slink) to main
(in potato) [0], which seems pretty neat.
It's all fairly small and cumulative, but this is just a point increment
after all.
Cheers,
aj
[0] Voila:
ajt@auric:~$ echo; find slink/non-free -follow -name '*.dsc' | sed 's,^.*/,,;s/_.*$//' | while read a; do ls -d potato/main/source/*/${a}_*.dsc; done 2>/dev/null | sed 's,^.*/,,;s/_.*$//' | sort | column
cgiwrap gif2png rocks-n-diamonds
chos kdrill seyon
dgs lclint sniffit
dmalloc lclint-doc unhtml
doc++ libjcode-perl wxftp
festival mirrormagic xwrits
festlex-cmu mp3info zip
festlex-poslex ocaml
festvox-kdlpc16k oonsoo
Interestingly, swapping slink and potato, four packages have moved
from main to non-free: crafty, cxhextris, omniorb and trn. Five
packages have moved from potato/non-free into woody/main, already,
too: libgd-perl, mysql, nco, nedit and rman.
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