On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 06:58:16PM +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. > > 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? Hi Joey, We've talked about this issue at least twice on the mailing lists and at least twice on IRC. The last time we spoke on IRC, you told me that the continued inclusion of this item in the *previous* "Preparation of the next stable update" message was an error. Have you changed your mind about that? What, pray tell, do I have to do to get this personal belittling out of your reports? -- G. Branden Robinson | There is no housing shortage in Debian GNU/Linux | Lincoln today -- just a rumor that branden@debian.org | is put about by people who have http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | nowhere to live. -- G. L. Murfin
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