Re: Stable release management
Vincent Renardias wrote:
> kernel:
> upgrade to 2.2.11 (many new/updated drivers, security fixes, no
> known problem yet)
> For europeans, we may want to include the next 2.2.12 release
> since it will include a big ISDN update.
I've put in 2.2.11 for now and have working floppies, using the stable
boot-floppies branch from CVS.
The problem with 2.2.12 is I hear it will also have raid updates that are
not backwards compatable, require a new raidutils, etc. Probably not good
for stable. But it will have a patch for the memory leak in 2.2.11 that must
go in at least.
We also need to upgrade all the packages at
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2. Sean Perry is
working on this. Also, packages like lsof and modules packages that are
linked to the kernel version will need to be rebuilt.
> XFree:
> upgrade to 3.3.3.1 or 3.3.4. (3.3.3.1 is old already : jan 99)
Working on 3.3.4. It builds, but the maintainer hasn't really released it
yet so I'll have to wait till they do.
> gdb:
> upgrade to 4.18 (4.17 has a few major problems, like missing
> support for libdl, etc...)
Done.
> GNOME:
> lastest 1.0.x version (version 0.3 simply doesn't work).
Someone else will have to handle this, I think, I don't know anything about
it and it's very complex.
> Apache/PHP3:
> look if the upgrade is worth it?
I'll ask netgod.
> Include all the fixes concerning Y2K fixes; since it's very unprobable
> that potato will be released before Y2K, this 'slink-update-1' is our last
> hope to get Y2K fixes on time.
I looked at http://www.debian.org/y2k/ and all packages listed as OK there
are already of the same or newer versions in stable already. util-linux is
marked as "BAD?" with no explination, and perhaps we should try to get that
fixed.
Moving on to http://www.debian.org/y2k/extra, cvs in stable is ok according
to the maintainer, though the page doesn't say so.
htdig in stable has y2k problems, updated.
dgs, gs, and gnats, all have problems and I don't know where to get
fixes since they're broken in stable too.
--
see shy jo
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