Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: Re: little NPTL SCHED_FIFO test program

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:17:37PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 21:11, Robert Jordens wrote:
> > [witten after a few beers and a birthday party at 3 am, so please excuse
> > misleading wording]
> > 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > [Fri, 20 Aug 2004] Lee Revell wrote:
> > > Argh, they will not even fix it in unstable?  What is the point of
> > > having an unstable distribution?!?.  Can we at least add the fix to
> > > experimental?
> > 
> > It's always an additional commitment and more work to maintain another
> > branch. Since the NPTL bug is not considered important enough there is 
> > no need to dedicate a branch to it. This is just coherent.
> > 
> > > If not now, then when do you expect this to be in unstable?
> > 
> > Personal judgement: With about 90% probability after the first release of 
> > sarge.
> > 
> 
> I was looking for a timeframe.  Weeks, months, years?  The debian
> release cycle is notoriously slow.

You could exert a little effort to find out before insulting the
maintainers.  The release is optimistically scheduled for the middle of
September.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz