Hello, Now that we have a solution for the ramdisk generation tool mess, we can go ahead, and outline a plan for bringing 2.6.13 to sid, and then go ahead and do the same with 2.6.14 shortly after that, while 2.6.12 is safely in etch.
As mentioned in : ... the plan for solving the ramdisk issues is done in three stages, current svn 2.6.13 packages implement stage 1, i have patches for both initrd-tools and initramfs-tools in svn, and the yaird folk adapted it for yaird, so we may go ahead and upload those nextly (if it could be in by monday, that would be nice). I will work on the last stage, the kernel-package patch, this WE, and do an NMU since Manoj is unavailable for the next times and asked us to do so. Once the fixed kernel-package is in the archive, we can then follow up and upload 2.6.13-2 to experimental, which will allow us to fine test all this and confirm that it works well, and then after some time, upload -3 to unstable, which will allow for more widespread testing, but see below. On a separate issue, current 2.6.13-1 had some serious build issue, which are not yet all fixed in svn, but the current svn status is : Building : alpha powerpc i386 amd64 sparc Broken but being worked on : s390 m68k Broken but not being worked on yet : hppa ia64 No information : arm Not in the common package : mips mipsel So, an upload of -2 will work on at least 5 arches out of 10, so this is a call for hppa, ia64, arm, s390 and m68k porter to fix these issues, hopefully for the -2 timeframe, but at least for the -3 timeframe. The other issue is that 2.6.14 is scheduled for release in the not so distant future, so we may skip uploading .13-3 to unstable and go for .14-1 directly, depending on status of newly introduced breakage in .14 and such. Ok, so now a tentative timeline for things to happen : Monday, october 17 : last call for upload of fixed yaird, initrd-tools, initramfs-tools, kernel-package. Wednesday, october 19 : last call for the -2 upload, any arches not fixed by then will have to wait for -3. Tuesday, october 25 : upload of -3 into sid, hopefully with all arches fixed, but this will be up to the porters. The alternative track is to drop -3, and start working on .14, and make a .14-1 upload to experimental somewhen in the week 43, the one of monday ocober 24. In any case, we don't intend to move .13 to etch. Comments ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
