[plug] Debian (Woody)

[Michael Hunt]

Look like Tony is going to get the money RSN.

Michael Hunt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Crawford [mailto:chris at linuxwa.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, 8 April 2002 8:16 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Debian (Woody)
> 
> 
> Looks Like is going to be out Soon :) 
> 
> Hello again,
> 
> Over the past few weeks most of the following packages have been removed
> from the upcoming release due to bugs and such [0].
> 
>     acroread           libqt3-psql             mercury
>     antlr              libsnmp-ruby            msyslog
>     cgiemail           lire                    orbit-mt
>     chdrv              lmbench                 pfaedit
>     devel-protocols    logtrend-complexalarm   popularity-contest
>     dnrd               logtrend-consolidation  pptp-linux
>     efingerd           logtrend-doc            qtella
>     eiffelfox          logtrend-ftpagent       radiusd-freeradius
>     galeon             logtrend-httpagent      rie
>     galeon-beta        logtrend-linuxagent     sather
>     garchiver          logtrend-mailbridge     scilab
>     gnotepad+-help     logtrend-snmpagent      syslog-common
>     honyaku-el         logtrend-storageserver  ttthreeparser
>     ilisp              logtrend-visuapache     velocity
>     infinity           logtrend-visuengine     werken.xpath
>     kernel-patch-mppe  makeme                  xmix
>     kvdr               masqmail                xtell
>     lclint             mc-foo
> 
> These packages will get a brief chance to be reconsidered in the next
> few
> days, but don't bet too heavily on them making it. From this point on,
> packages that are still in testing that have serious, grave or critical
> bugs that get removed probably won't get any second chances.
> 
> In that vein, I'm becoming increasingly confident in woody's release
> readiness. So, to go out on a limb:
> 
> 	Debian 3.0 (codenamed woody) will release on May 1st, 2002.
> 
> Actually, as always, it'll release when it's ready: if we find that the
> software doesn't meet our expectations on April 30th, you'll find me on
> the ground writhing in pain with leaves, bark and wood all over the
> place
> [1].
> 
> Disclaimers aside, the things we've got left to finish of are these:
> 
> 	* Boot-floppies need to be built for sparc and alpha
> 
> 	* The people preparing release notes need to finish them off
> 
> 	* The people preparing CD images need to make sure they're in
> 	  a state where they can be told "go" and come up with reliable,
> 	  final images for all eleven architectures a few hours later
> 
> 	* apache needs to have its outstanding packaging bugs fixed
> 	* gimp1.2 needs to be fixed on alpha, even with the new pdl
> 	* hppa's db2/loader problem needs to be fixed
> 	* gs-common's license issues need to be resolved
> 	* mozilla's -fPIC problem needs to be fixed
> 
> 	* Uploads need to be done for the following packages whose woody
> 	  versions have security problems:
> 		exim-tls
> 		icecast-server
> 		libax25
> 		lockvc
> 		nscd
> 		phpgroupware
> 		xfree86
> 
> 	* A bunch of archive maintenance tasks need to be finished off
> 	  (giving the packages listed at the start of this mail a second
> 	  chance to get released, some further touchups with the crypto
> 	  in main transition, etc)
> 
> All these things will be well and truly finished by the 20th (two weeks
> away), and should be finished early next week.
> 
> For those of you who're working on packages that are crucial for release
> but don't have the testing<->unstable buffer to protect us from bugs
> you introduce (in particular CD and boot-floppies people) please be
> _incredibly_ conservative in _everything_ you do. If you can't prove
> beyond any _possible_ question that what you're doing won't break things
> that currently work, _do not change them_. No matter how much better it
> might be for how many people.
> 
> Cheers,
> aj
> 
> [0] Note: this reflects bugs in the Debian packages of this software;
> they
>     may be Debian specific problems, or problems that've been fixed by
>     the upstream authors. This caveat was brought to you by the Society
>     for the Prevention of Irate Letters from Upstream Maintainers,
>     and is being displayed with recycled photons.
> 
> [1] I'm going out on a limb, remember.
> 
> -- 
> Anthony Towns <ajt at debian.org>
> Woody Release Manager
> 
> 
> -- 
> Chris Crawford
> Linux Services W.A
> email: chris at linuxwa.com.au
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>