Re: 2.6.8 release
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:46:21AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> There has been some talk on IRC about what kernel to release sarge with;
> some people would prefer 2.6.8 (which hasn't been released yet). If we
> want to do that, I would suggest getting a jump on stuff now by preparing
> 2.6.8rc2 in svn, naming the package kernel-source-2.6.8 2.6.7+2.6.8rc2,
> tagging and uploading to experimental (with associated arch-specific
> packages uploaded as well). This way, by the time upstream releases 2.6.8,
> the packages will (hopefully) have made it through NEW; so,
> we can do uploads of 2.6.8 and have it enter sid immediately. The less
> time we have to sit around waiting for things like this, the better.
I was going to start this next weel, but any such discussion must be sure to
have debian-release in the loop, or we might face surprises.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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