Re: Woody release?
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> > > I'm worried that the next release after woody will be 3 or 4 years
> from now.
> > Trying to coordinate too many archs. What about pushing for an indepenent
> > release cycle? Debian is like a dancing centipede with seventy broken
> > legs. To add Hurd to the centepede would make the situation worse for
> > everyone.
>
> I don't agree. The packages in stable are out of date by policy, not
> coordination effort. Testing deals with most release problems, since
> it's always a snapshot of the packages that are current. I want to
> get us into testing so that maintainers share the responsibility of
> making sure their packages work on our system.
>
Hadn't thought of that, a good idea. I still wish that the release cycle
was twice as fast.
Phil.
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