Re: Please release 2.1r6

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 07:34:11AM -0700, Jim Westveer wrote:
> > I understand that one does not want to update the stable tree
> > without documenting the changes,  but the current errors
> > in 2.1r5 are procluding the creation of .iso's because of this
> > dependancy problem.  
> 
> What I don't understand is why this makes it impossible to generate
> CD's.  Is debian-cd so fragile that it dies on an unmet dependency?

Yes.

Since pkg-order was used in former versions of debian-cd it died
whenever there were unmet dpendencies.  This is to save the user
from suffering due to unmet dependencies...

> If so, this will have to be fixed before the first test cycle for
> potato, because I can already tell you that potato will not have
> all of its dependency issues ironed out before the release.

THIS WOULD BE VERY BAD!

Regards,

	Joey

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