Re: GR 2004-004
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:49:52PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:04:52PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> > In the near future, I'll need a relatively modern and stable Linux
> > system for a desktop PC. But since sarge probably won't be released
> > until this time, my plans to install sarge on this machine are totally
> > screwn up. And since voting periods are just put off and one doesn't
> > even know when they will finally be, it's impossible to make
> > reasonable plans concerning Debian installations.
>
> That's not really true.
>
> For the time being, the release is continuing as planned. Work on
> debian-installer is continuing; and since debian-installer, not GR
> 2004-003, is the main reason why Sarge hasn't been released yet, the
> recently voted GR has no effect on the release time of sarge -- yet.
>
> > I'm really annoyed because of these release problems and the
> > uncertainness.
>
> Well, can't help you there. It's clear that many developers are
> interested in seeing Sarge release "soon", but at this point, it's
> impossible to say when the vote will be.
>
> That said, if the outcome of the vote will be one of the proposals that
> would allow sarge to be released with non-DFSG-free documents in main, I
> don't think the release would be postponed even a bit.
It will necessarily be postponed beyond the last schedule posted on
debian-devel-announce. With the exception of the social contract
torpedo, we had (for a change) been keeping pretty well on schedule
there.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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