Re: Debian policy, major change ?
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:56:15PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:09:01PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:51:42PM +0200, Stephane wrote:
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200308/msg00010.html
>
> If the question is, what do people think of having a projected release
> date, I for one quite like it. Gives me something to look forward.
>
> A couple of technical questions about the release:
>
> - first of all, is it possible to get one's hands on debian-installer
I think the URL above describes that.
> -- and does it largely work at this point? I'd love to try it out.
In Anthony's release plan under "August 19th (now)", he says:
Beta testing of debian-installer by adventurous users
(subscribe to debian-boot, and try CVS or the images at
http://people.debian.org/~tfheen/d-i/images/daily/)
So, if you're "adventurous", go for it.
> - and second: has a decision been made regarding the version of gcc
> that sarge will be compiled with?
Whatever version is in sarge, which is 3.3 at the moment. However, this
of course all depends on what happened to be on maintainers' machines
and build daemons when the most recent version of each package was
built.
> Is this question related to the delays in getting gnome2.2 and kde 3.1
> in sarge (referred to earlier by Colin, whose mail I accidentally
> deleted)?
Not really, no. That's more a question of complicated library
transitions at the moment: for example, pilot-link's library has changed
its package name, and both GNOME and KDE use it, so core bits of both
GNOME and KDE will have to be ready for testing at the same time in
order for either to be upgraded. Quite a lot of attention is being paid
to this sort of thing at the moment, though.
(Also, glibc 2.3.2 is currently holding up more or less everything, and
fixing it is a very high priority.)
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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