Mark Howard said, and I quote: > hi, > Well done to everyone for the woody release! > > Are there any plans for what packages will go into sarge? or will you > just wait xx months and freeze with whatever is there at the time. > > IMHO, it would be better to plan what is expected to go in sarge, then > the freeze can start as soon as these packages are ready and any other > major releases will have to wait until sarge+1. Hopefully then new > upstream releases won't hold back the next release. > > A start of a list could look like: > - new menu system > - PGI > - KDE 3.0.x With any luck this will be 3.1.x. AIUI 3.1 is due for release in October. The packages are being kept reasonably up to date with HEAD. > - GNOME 2.0.x > - Apache 2 > - Perl 5.8 > - hurd ?sarge +1? > ... > Obviously the individual maintainers of the major packages would have to > contribute as only they know what can realistically be achieved. > By major packages, I (mainly) mean packages which many other packages > depend on; and packages which are very complex. > Also note the importance of adding to the list such items as "major > policy change of foo" and "major changes to foobar infrastructure, so > that it supports bar". > I believe that making gcc 3.1 the default compiler will be a major goal. The transition to libpng3 could be included in the list. > If major new release which aren't on the list are made before the start > of the freeze, then perhaps they should be packaged in experimental and > only be allowed into sid (and the planned packages list) if they are in > an almost-complete state, waiting for further testing, at a fixed time > before the planned start of the freeze. > > I expect many people will have their own opinions about what should go > into sarge, but what is really needed to make this work is some sort of > approval of such a list by the important people (release manager) > -- David Pashley david@davidpashley.com Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
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