Re: LFS and IPv6 goals
* Thijs Kinkhorst (thijs@debian.org) [110808 10:35]:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, August 1, 2011 23:07, Neil McGovern wrote:
> > Carried forward from last release:
> > - IPv6 support
> > - Large File Support
>
> I'm wondering why these two are still goals for the current cycle. I think
> it's safe to say that their intent has already been achieved (make Debian
> generally work well with IPv6/LFS). What's left now is some specific bugs
> tagged ipv6 or lfs, but these lists will probably never be completely
> empty. Making a sprint on these subjects with etch and lenny was useful,
> but now we've now reached the stage where bugs in these systems are valid
> and should be fixed, but aren't fundamendamentally different from any
> other set of bugs.
>
> They aren't formulated in a SMART way, and it's not clear (to me at least)
> what in the wheezy cycle specifically is expected to happen that needs
> release goal status. My conclusion would be to just drop the goals:
> they've already been successful.
This means to me mostly "bugs regarding these topics continue to stay
(at least) important, and can be NMUed as RC bugs". Perhaps such
clean-up tasks should be moved somewhere else, but until that is done,
I think release goals is still the appropriate headings for it.
Andi
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