On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:36:12AM +0200, Joey Hess wrote: > The current state of d-i in unstable (and hopefully soon in testing) > seems to be nearly releasable now to me. Most remaining issues only > prevent some arches from being releasable yet.
Joey, what are the estimated schedule for a release ? There are two things that you need to be aware off for this beta you are planing. First, we need to get either a parted 1.6.25 or a backported bugfix out, in order t oavoid destroying vfat filesystem while resizing (not sure about the exact details). I will not be able to do this until friday though, but maybe leslie will be able to make the upstream release, or otavio can try backporting the fix until then. The second thing concerns the kernel. As you know, the 2.6 kernel now have only one linux-2.6 source package, which means we cannot have two versions in the same dist. We are currently working on releasing 2.6.12-9, which should contain a number of fixes over 2.6.12-6, and it would be good to have this one for the beta. Furthermore, once 2.6.12-9 has migrated to testing, we are going to upload 2.6.13-1 to unstable, which i am not fully sure what the implications would be for d-i and especially the kernel .udebs, and the beta. Maybe the best solution would be for the beta to move the 2.6.12-9 based kernel .udebs to testing, since this is what i believe you build the beta with, right ? The last problem is that 2.6.13 will remove devfs support, which has implications for d-i, altough they will probably be easy to fix, and which also has implications the way the initrd is built, since we will drop initrd-tools in favour of either yaird or initramfs-tools. I am using yaird myself right now, and have to say i was really surprised by it, since it worked out of the box without any major problem. Then i have a question about the kernel .udeb generation, what is the build status of those ? I get the feeling that they still get built in dispersed order, and we don't have a guarantee what kernel is used for all arches on each of them ? Did you come to a solution about this during the stay in Oldenburg ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
