Re: Finding an improved release process.
John Goerzen wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:23:08AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> wrote:
>> Thankfully, this no longer seems to be the case for Sarge. The two
>> things that are holding us up are the installer and the security
>> support. It's unlikely that the installer would have been finished any
>> faster if it had been supporting fewer architectures - many people have
>
>In that case, we could have just kept the installer from woody and been
>done with it, no?
If necessary, I believe we could have done so, yes, _for some
architectures_. In the end we didn't have to, as sufficient effort was
found on all the different arches to make d-i happen everywhere. For
several of the arches, we could have survived with woody boot floppies
and let people boot/install from those and then upgrade straight to
sarge. After all, that's one of the big attractions of debian - the
upgradability. For active arches like i386 and powerpc, we needed
desperately to move onto d-i to get newer kernels, better hardware
support, etc.
All IMHO, of course. I'm astounded at how lovely d-i is on the
machines I've installed recently, and long may it continue!
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
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