Re: 2.6.8 release
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 01:52:17PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Andres Salomon writes:
>
> > 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).
>
> If we want to do this, we must still make sure that the pruned tarball
> kernel-source-2.6.8-2.6.8.orig.tar.gz that gets into unstable is the
> vanilla tarball linux-2.6.8.tar.gz minus the non-free bits that get
> eaten by the prune script. The above suggestion runs the risk of
> getting us stuck with 2.6.8-rc2 as .orig.tar.gz, and then we have to
> drag the patch between vanilla 2.6.8-rc2 and 2.6.8 along in the Debian
> patch. Apart from bloating the Debian patch, this leads to breakage
> for users applying it themselves to vanilla 2.6.8 (for whatever
> reason).
>
> > 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 don't think this is an issue at all. Last time, it took us less
> than a week to prepare and upload the first revision, and that
> included the transition to split patches. The packages entered
> unstable less than two weeks later. Here's the precise timeline:
>
> Jun 15 vanilla 2.6.7 released
> Jun 21 kernel-source-2.6.7 and kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc uploaded
> Jun 24 kernel-source-2.6.7 and kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc uploaded again
> Jun 25 kernel-image-2.6.7-i386 uploaded
> Jul 02 kernel-source-2.6.7 and kernel-image-2.6.7-i386 accepted
> Jul 04 kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc accepted
>
> All in all, I would suggest to just forget this -rc business.
Seconded, especially if the timeline for the 2.6.8 release is in 1 or 2 weeks,
like it seems to be.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
Reply to: