On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:29:21PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update > ====================================================== [...] > debootstrap-udeb updates 0.1.17.7woody1 alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc > debootstrap stable 0.1.17 alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc source > debootstrap updates 0.1.17.7woody1 alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc source > > * NMU > > * Rebuild of 0.1.17.8 for woody to pull in race condition fix and missing > package dependency fixes, among others. > > * NMU versioned the way it is so that dpkg doesn't think 0.1.17.[1-7] is > newer than this release, but "upgrades" (actually sidegrades) to 0.1.17.8 > are still straightforward. > > TODO: Why? > > James once said that -udeb packages won't appear in stable, so > this should not be a problem. > > Aha, Ray Dassen and Lucas Albers explained that a dependency > to binutils is missing so that debootstrap cannot use ar to > unpack the .deb files and hence cannot work at all if binutils > isn't installed "by accident", which is fixed in > 0.1.17.7woody1. (Bug#223835) > > Documenting such changes would be too much, dear Branden? > Wasn't you one of those requesting properly written changelog > entries? I confirmed with Martin Schulze on IRC that this item was left in by accident; he said that debootstrap 0.1.17.7woody1 will be accepted into the next stable update. -- G. Branden Robinson | As people do better, they start Debian GNU/Linux | voting like Republicans -- unless branden@debian.org | they have too much education and http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | vote Democratic. -- Karl Rove
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