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Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes



On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:05:13PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mi, 29 Jul 2009, Luk Claes wrote:
> > The developers have had the opportunity and still have the opportunity  
> > to get stuff done before the release. It's true that developers should  
> > probably consider to already be careful about what to upload, but there  
> > is still opportunity to do changes till the freeze.
> 
> Ok, for the Debian TeX Team that means that squeeze will contain 
> TeX Live 2007, and will be like that till squeeze+1 in 2012. That 
> is quite ridiculuos, but I cannot finish TL2009 packages alone and
> by December.
> 
> So it be.

Luckily it doesn't have to be. As just announced by Luk on d-d-a this
freeze date is going to be revised and TL2009 still has chances. Even
better that our Release Managers (who of course read this) now are aware
of your concerns.

> That also means I can stop working on it at all now, and wait for 
> TeX Live 2010 to come out and package that one.

Please don't, please! :)

Hauke

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