On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 15:14, Colin Watson wrote: > sid is unstable, and often suits its name. I wouldn't expect it ever to > settle down if I were you. :) > > The current major blockers are the perl 5.8 and python 2.2 transitions. > Those are being worked on and should be sorted out by a couple of weeks > from now, but by then something else may well have taken their place. >From what I can see on the lists, upcoming events are - gcc 3.2 - glibc 2.3 - gnome 2 - KDE 3.whatever - XFree 4.2 - menu system rewrite - installer gcc 3.2 and glibc 2.3 are looking good, and I don't expect much impact on users (but it'd perhaps still be wise not to upgrade to the first available glibc 2.3 package. It's libc, after all). gnome 2 is being handled very badly, this has even effected testing :-( I didn't follow issues closely, but I'd not expect this to be settled too soon. KDE: no idea. I guess 3.0.x will never come into a Debian release, but directly 3.1. From what little I tried, the 3.1 packages seem to be basically working (for alpha packages not even present in experimental, that is). XFree: I'm sure this will go without major breakage. menu system: I guess there'll be a long enough transition period as it will perhaps affect many, many, many packages. installer: shouldn't have any impact at all if you're just running the system. IANADD and YMMV, if I got something plain wrong please correct me. (Please don't if you just happen to be of a different opinion on, to pick one item at random, the gnome2 transition). HTH cheesrs -- vbi -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg NOTICE: subkey signature! request key 92082481 from keyserver.kjsl.com
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