Re: NPTL -- not happening?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:24:15AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> 
> > Too late. Face it, if we are going to rebuild with a NPTL glibc and gcc 3.4,
> > we may not release sarge this year, at least not earlier than sarge+1 aka etch
> > would be released, so what do we gain with this ? 
> > 
> > > 4.0 is still not ready to be used by anything but gcc hackers imho :)
> > 
> > now. but i bet you will say differently shortly before the sarge release.
> > 
> > Like said, it is more important to get sarge out by now, there are enough
> > improvements over woody to make it worth it, and we are aiming for faster
> > release cycles in the future, or people will just run testing/unstable as we
> > all do now anyway.
> 
> You know, the problem I have with this is that "sarge will be released
> real soon now" is what i've been hearing for what ... a year ? more ? it
> just seem to never happen...

Yep, but now seems the day indeed. The testing-security infrastructure which
was the last problematic point seems to be done or almost so, d-i is ready,
just needs a new build for kernel updates, and the RC bug count is down to
around 100.

Friendly,

Sven Luther