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Re: It's Time to Release



On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 03:54:34PM -0500, Brian White wrote:
> Okay everyone...  enough delays!
> 
> Here's what I would like to do:
> 
> For the next 7 days, now installs will be greatly restricted.  If it
> doesn't fix a critical or grave bug, it doesn't go in.  If it does
> anything _but_ fix a critical or grave bug, it may be rejected anyway.
> Fixes to important bugs <33000 will be considered for installation,
> but not any later ones.
> 
> Official release Debian v2.1 on Tuesday (Monday night?), March 2nd at
> 00:00 GMT.
> 
> Any objections?
> 
> 
> Here is my latest bug list...
> 
> Package Name      Bug #  Bug Description [days old] (maintainer)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  ~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> apache            33362  apache: apache 1.3.3-6 depends on apache-common (&gt;= 1.3.4) [0]  (Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>)
Is this one trivial to fix e.g. by allowing in the version in potato ?
> automake          32404  automake upgrade is not backwards compatible [0]  (Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>)
Our problem or is this one from upstream ??
> boot-floppies     33276  FW: Boot disks 2.1.7 has &quot;broken&quot; dpkg_slinkcd ;( [0]  (Enrique Zanardi <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>)
Have we got time for a 2.1.8 ??
> defrag            32731  defrag: e2dump quits with check_block_location:6678674146834 [11]  (Adam Heath <adam.heath@usa.net>)
Can we pull this one temporarily to allow the release to go ahead ?
> dpkg              17624  dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink ! [380]  (Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
> dpkg              21182  dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-configure-any [305]  (Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
> dpkg              28519  dpkg: dpkg creates circular symlinks [111]  (Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
> dpkg              28817  dpkg takes no care over libdpkg [104]  (Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
> dpkg              30090  weirdass dpkg coredumps and xbase upgrade insanity [78]  (Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
> dpkg              33046  dpkg: severe breakage after removal of xbase [0]  (Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
Leave these: some of these have been here since before 2.0 - Ian may now have
time to fix these _after release_
> general           28850  gettext: security problem when used in setuid programs [0]  (debian-devel@lists.debian.org)
Downgrade this??
> general           32888  base: Removing &quot;Obsolete&quot; package base kills a system [9]  (debian-devel@lists.debian.org)
Downgrade this ??
> htdig             33316  Misconfigured rundig and htsearch (others in the package probably too) [0]  (Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>)
Can we pull this one temporarily too ??
> jdk1.1            32548  Java doesn't work at all for me on slink [16]  (Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>)
> libpam0g-util     33238  libpam0g-util: bogus cracklib2 dependency. [0]  (Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>)
Isn't there a fix in Incoming ??
> libtricks         32842  libtricks: segfault [9]  (joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>)
> licq              33302  Wrong depends [0]  (Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org>)
> mc                33341  mc: buffer overrun in slang/sltermin.c [PATCH] [0]  (Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>)
> netstd            33249  ftpd displays user passwords (SECURITY) [0]  (Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>)
> sendmail          33152  [patrick@PINE.NL: Sendmail 8.9.3] [0]  (Richard Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>)
> smb2www           32131  smb2www: smb2www in slink incompatible with samba in slink [25]  (Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>)
> smb2www           33331  smb2www: smb2www incompatible with samba 2.0.x (not for slink) [0]  (Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>)
> vim-python        33323  vim-python not compiled with python [0]  (Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>)
> 
>                                           Brian
>                                  ( bcwhite@debian.org )
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IMHO, the others aren't sufficient to delay the major release.  Let's get
this one out of the door.  That will allow Branden to get on with XFree 3.3.3
, fixes for kernel 2.2.1 and FSSTND to be worked on for Potato a.k.a 2.2

I've just had a 1/2 hour conversation with one of my oldest friends who 
has been waiting on Slink: apropos the release cycle/freeze cycle - his
candid opinion is that this one has been too long. OTOH, he didn't realise
that Alpha/Sparc [ARM/M68K ??] would also be releasing.

Let's bite the bullet - try for release on 21/22/23 Feb instead of 2 March ??

Andy


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