Re: Frozen, rsync
Colin Watson wrote:
> arodriguez@worldnet.att.net (Antonio Rodriguez) wrote:
> >Is there any way of knowing which packages from the frozen portion are
> >already bug-free and completely ready to be included in the next release
> >2.2?
>
> You can't be sure, but you can probably get a fairly good idea from
> looking for the packages that aren't on the release-critical bugs list
> posted regularly to debian-devel-announce (see the mailing list archives
> at www.debian.org). We're now at the stage in the freeze where packages
> are only allowed to change for potato if they have release-critical bugs
> that need fixing, though core packages like libc6 and dpkg and debconf
> and the like may well be exceptions to this. I'd say, then, that if you
> made a list of all packages with priority Standard or lower and excluded
> those with RC bugs you'd get quite an accurate list.
>
> >The reason is that I plan to prepare my own CDs next time, so I
> >thought could be a good idea to start collecting packages so that when I
> >run the rsync it can get most from my hard disk storage. I wonder how
> >usable will the slink Cds be for that purpose.
>
> I'm not sure I understand this last bit ...
>
What I meant was: Perhaps part of the code from the slink packages is used in the code
for the new packages, hence could (???) be used by the rsync program when it is run. I
have no idea if it is possible. I noticed that, for example, xcdroast is about the
same version.
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> Colin Watson [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]
>
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