On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:02:34PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:53:22AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hi all, i suppose you all did see this one. > > > > Question, do we want to go ahead and package this, including the full > > rebuild, > > or wait for ocaml 3.09 ? Do anyone have any information of the likeliness > > of a > > 3.09 release nextly ? I mean we where acustomed to a yearly new ocaml > > release > > each summer, but maybe with the point releases this is no more of actuality. > > Ok, i had a quick chat with the release team on these issues, and the > consensus seems to be : > > There is currently glic, xorg and KDE transition goin on, so an upload of > 3.08.4 or early 3.09 will only be hold up by these transitions. > > So, we wait to approximately end of september, and check out the above > transitions again, if 3.09 (or the followup 3.09.1) has been release by > then. Depending on the status of the transition we will then move for an > upload or not. The uplod will probably mean some stuff may be removed from > testing temporarily, if it is blocked by some of the bigger transition. > > In the meantime, we upload to experimental 3.09 as soon as it is released, > both to help upstream testing and to satisfy our users.
I agree, of course. Unfortunately, I did not ask Xavier when he expects the first bug-fix release of ocaml 3.09 to be rolled out, but I understood that he meant "wait until we have some idea about whether 3.09 has no major new bugs, or until we have fixed the first bugs". -Ralf. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
