Re: Etch in the hands of the Stable Release Managers
On Sun, Apr 8, 2007 at 14:54:12 +0000, Andreas Barth wrote:
> At this point, we would like to thank all people who have helped to
> release Debian 4.0 (Etch). Only through the work of the community we
> were able to get to this point.
>
Thanks and congratulations to the release team for this achievement!
> Preparing the first point-release
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> There are already some packages known that will need an update in stable
> soon. Best known is the kernel, which has some annoying bugs with pending
> fixes. If you are aware of any important bug that is waiting
> in unstable and didn't make the release because of time constraints,
> send a mail to debian-release@lists.debian.org. The usual rules that
> were in place for freeze exceptions are also mainly valid for the first point
> release of the Etch life cycle. It will be possible to accept packages
> directly from unstable to stable-proposed-updates. If you want the stable
> release team to do that, wait with new uploads until you got a confirmation
> that the package was accepted.
>
xorg 1:7.1.0-18 was unblocked for etch, but not built in time. Is it a
candidate for r1?
Cheers,
Julien
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