On Monday 09 May 2005 12:12, Herman Robak wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 08:21, Markus Gamenius wrote: > The long release cycles of Debian causes some real-world > problems. There was a proposal for "partial" releases that > could occur more often at Debconf3 two years ago. Has it > been raised again? Debconf5 this summer would be a good > time. Are you coming, Markus? > > Most of the software packages don't have to track new > hardware. Even if it's old, it will still work. However, > the installer, the kernel and X will often simply not work http://volatile.debian.net/ should solve these kinds of problems to some extend (at least that's how I understand the idea behind volatile) As for the installer I think I remember some discussion of releasing an updated installer with added drivers for sarge (as d-i makes this relatively easy to do, whereas for bootfloppies this was more of a nightmare) -- cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis): Coördinator Belgisch Skolelinux team Coördinator Nederlandse Skolelinux vertaling
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