Debian packages of MaxDB 7.6 in experimental - Call for testers

[Martin Kittel <debian@martin-kittel.de>]

Hi,

Debian packages of the 7.6.00 release series of the MaxDB database 
system are now available in the experimental distribution. Next to the 
source package, there are binary packages for i386 and ia64 available.

While you can have both the maxdb-server-7.5.00 and maxdb-server-7.6.00 
package installed alongside each other, the packages from the 7.6.00 
release series will replace most of the packages that are now provided 
by packages built from the maxdb-7.5.00 source package. Therefore it is 
important to have the new 7.6.00 packages well tested before making them 
available in unstable to avoid unpleasant surprises.

My intention is to keep the new maxdb-7.6.00 packages in experimental 
for at least a month (for the most part of that time I will be on 
vacation and unavailable anyway) and if necessary do another upload to 
experimental after that time. If no major problems have been discovered 
until then I will prepare a new upload that will then go directly to 
unstable.

Please take the time and have a go with the packages on a test machine, 
especially if you are already using packages from the 7.5.00 release 
series. Of course, I am most interested in any problems you encounter 
when having the 7.5.00 packages already installed.

Thanks for your help and good luck with the packages,

Martin.