Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Andy Cater wrote:
>
>Tag the GFDL and firmware issues as "Sarge + 1" but don't ignore them:
>make it clear that they must be resolved before the next release.
>Try and make the position clearer with the FSF.
>
>Add a rider to the distribution installation and release notes for
>Sarge.  Note in this that Debian devlopers changed the Social
>Contract text as from ... and that we were, at that stage, virtually
>ready to release on the basis of the pre-existing Social Contract.
>Since it would be inequitable to apply the new SC retroactively, the
>Sarge release is accordingly based on the pre-GR SC.
>
>Let's get testing the beta4 of d-i and release the bloody distribution
>as fast and as well as we practicably can.

Well said that man.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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