Re: GCC 3.3 release criteria
> From: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>
>
> Kaveh R. Ghazi writes:
> > Thanks Matthias, but seeing your patch two things occur to me:
> >
> > One is we don't have a "tester" for x86 Debian (of any version), would
> > you like to volunteer to be it?
>
> yes, then I will "test" it on Debian unstable as well.
Great, thanks. Though be aware that being the "tester" will mean
Debian specific bugs will be pointed your way, and the responsibility
to fix them prior to the release being made is yours not that of the
Release Manager.
> We apply some patches to the packages, for which descriptions are
> included into the test reports. These patches include
For the purposes of evaluating release criteria, it's important to
test and post results for a "clean" source tree. It does no good to
say GCC 3.3 works with N extra patches when deciding whether 3.3 alone
is releasable with regards to Debian. Don't you agree?
Is the patch below correct in your eyes?
Index: criteria.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-3.3/criteria.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -p -r1.3 criteria.html
--- criteria.html 4 Mar 2003 05:41:22 -0000 1.3
+++ criteria.html 4 Mar 2003 14:41:59 -0000
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ possible, the release will support other
<td>hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00</td>
<td><a href="mailto:dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca";>John David Anglin</a></td>
</tr>
-<tr><td>Intel x86</td><td>Debian GNU/Linux 2.2</td><td>i386-pc-linux-gnu</td><td> </td></tr>
+<tr><td>Intel x86</td><td>Debian GNU/Linux 3.0</td><td>i386-pc-linux-gnu</td>
+<td><a href="mailto:doko@cs.tu-berlin.de";>Matthias Klose</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Intel x86</td><td>RedHat Linux 6.2</td> <td>i686-pc-linux-gnu</td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Intel x86</td><td>FreeBSD 4.5</td>
<td>i386-unknown-freebsd4.5</td>
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