Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:28:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Well, there was a syntactic social contract GR which slyly passed the
> more important decision that all stuff in debian is now software,
> including documentation and data. This meant that all the GFDL software
> was now considered non-free, and should be removed from debian before
> the saarge release. The Release Manager claimed that this would take a
> long time, and that he could not iun concience make the release in the
> time he was planning with this.
>
> There was a new vote, which ended on july 2, in which we decided to
> waive the requirement of dropping all GNU documetnation until after the
> sarge release, so it is again possible to release sarge on the old
> schedule (or lack thereof), which also means that the sarge release will
> heppen rather sooner than later, hopefully this summer.
>
> For more info, read the debian-vote mailing lists archive.
>
> And welcome to debian politics :)
Hmm, I wonder what this means for the firmware blob issues..
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