Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: Re: little NPTL SCHED_FIFO test program
On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 10:36, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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.
That was not meant to be an insult, I actually agree with Debian's slow
release cycle. The alternative seems to be shipping with showstopper
bugs (FC2).
Thanks for the information.
Lee
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