Re: Lenny?

[Jeff Grossman <jeff@stikman.com>]

Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in> wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:49:47AM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
>> What is the typical timescale in which web site update and
>> upgrade/installation documentation come up?  Can I change "etch" to
>> "lenny" in my sources.list to upgrade?
>
>You can do that, and safely assume that it is stable. The reason why
>the "we have released" mail has not been sent is because the CD images
>are still being built/pushed to mirrors. Since that is a monstrous
>task, given the number of CD images Debian makes available, that final
>step will take some time.
>
>I guess you should be hearing the official "We've released!" news
>tomorrow. However, putting "lenny" in your sources.list will work
>fine. If your mirror is not fully up-to-date today, within a few days,
>only an incremental update will be needed, once the remaining
>differences are mirrored.

I just went to http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/ and it appears the
5.0 CD/DVD images are now up on the site.  I would imagine the website
should be updated soon and an official release e-mail will also be
going out pretty soon.

Jeff