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. -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and working code.'' -- Dave Clark
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