Re: Debian Installer etch RC1 released
On 2006-11-19, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi Ted,
>
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 12:32:19PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 04:52:57PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
>
>> > There are good chances that Etch will contain 2.6.18, but due to some
>> > open bugs the Release Candidate 1 of the installer has still 2.6.17.
>
>> Because of the sysctl deprecation issue, it might be a good idea to
>> either consider 2.6.19, or probably a better solution would be to
>> backport the sysctl undeprecation patches into 2.6.18....
>
> Could you please file this as a bug against the linux-2.6 package, at
> severity: serious if you believe this is something that needs to be
> considered a release blocker?
Linus was asking about any program with *hard* dependency on this[1]. I
fail to see one.
2.6.19 isn't available yet, has many huge number of changes, testing with
big masses is far ahead. Also 2.6.18 was delayed and it seems good so
far.
[1] Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0610181129090.3962 () g5 ! osdl ! org
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