Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Geeze, I'm not quite sure what you're going for. Are you lobbying to > have a 2.1rX which include 2.2 updates?
Um yes. Did you miss my post to debian-devel? Everyone I've talked to it seems in favor of it and I have the support of the stable relese manager, Vincent Renardias. Sorry, I keep forgetting some people don't read all of that list. Here's the summary straight out of DWN. (And I'm not blowing my own horn here, someone else wrote it. :-) Joey Hess proposed (http://debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9908/msg00604.html) a major update to slink (Debian 2.1). Under the proposal, major packages that have been tested for 2-4 months will be incoporated into slink. Hopefully, this experiment will help cut down on Debian's future release cycles. Response so far as been largely positive, and work is underway. > If so, I could get behind that, but I am a little sketical about it -- > I would want to get some test data about how much better kernel 2.2 > does for folks trying to install Debian. That's fine. I also posted to debian-testing. Anyway, the logical first step is clearly to make the disks. > I would dearly like to see updated boot-floppies in either case. Well here they are, though I'll have better ones tomorrow. -- see shy jo
