Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 05:29:47PM +0800, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> I am not putting pressure on Debian to change.

Sorry... I do not feel pressure from your postings.

Debian practically release new system every 6 hours :-)
See "Life with eternal upgrades":
 http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_life_with_eternal_upgrades 

For people like you or me who needs relatively new system for
non-mission critical desktop system as a technically capable user, we
have sid/testing/experimental... repositories.  We just use the word
"release" in very narrow sense, i.e., only for stable release.

Debian upgrade scripts makes this eternal upgrades possible.

As for Kernel, we have 3.3 packaged as linux-2.6 3.3~rc6-1~experimental.1
 http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6/news/20120305T193428Z.html

If you really wish us to feel pressure for release, send us patches to
fix RC bugs.  (I think you have to learn how we operate first though.)

As being volunteer organization, it used to take years to make stable
release.  Recently, it have been shortend to 2 year cycle.  We need
volunteer to make this keep happning.  (No verbal pressure but patches!)

Osamu